emotio
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Forms
ēmōtiō f (genitive ēmōtiōnis); third declension[1]
Etymology
It is a noun of action from Latin ēmoveō (“to move out, remove”), formed with the suffix -tiō.[2][3]
Earliest recorded meaning
It is recorded only in an ancient Greek–Latin glossary, where it renders Greek ἀποκίνησις (apokínēsis, “a moving away”).[1][2][3]
Semantic evolution
The Latin word stayed a glossary word with the sense of a moving away.[1][3] The modern sense of strong feeling belongs to French émotion, from which Italian emozione was borrowed;[4] Conte compares it with the Late Latin ēmōtiō.[4] English emotion (1570s) came from the French word, which goes back to ēmoveō.[5]
Timeline
- ancient glossaries – A Greek–Latin glossary renders ἀποκίνησις with it.[1][2]
- 1570s – English emotion is borrowed from French émotion.[5]
Meanings
Noun
References
- ^ a b c d e Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
- ^ a b c Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
- ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
- ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com