erogatio

Forms

ērogātiō f (genitive ērogātiōnis); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin ērogō + -tiō,^[2][3] from ērogō (“to pay out”), a compound of ex- and rogō (“to ask”).^[1] The verb rogō is probably a denominative verb from Proto-Italic *rogo- (“request; stretching out”), from Proto-Indo-European *h3roǵ-o- (“stretching”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Cicero has it first, in a letter to Atticus, for the paying out of money.^[2][3][5]

Semantic evolution

Its main sense is the paying out or expenditure of public or private money;^[2][6] Tacitus speaks of balancing revenue against necessary expenses.^[7] Frontinus uses it as a technical term for the delivery of water from the distribution tanks of the aqueducts,^[2][8][3] and Pliny the Younger and the jurists also have it.^[6][3] Tertullian once uses it for the abrogation of a law.^[6][8] Ecclesiastical Latin keeps the sense of paying and distribution,^[9] and Italian continues it as erogazione.^[7]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of paying out money.^[2][5]
• 98–115 AD – Tacitus writes of necessary expenditures.^[7][5]
• c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it for the repeal of a law.^[6][5]
• 528–534 AD – The Code of Justinian uses it of expenditure.^[6][5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A paying out; expenditure, outlay of money.^[2][6]
2. The delivery or distribution of water from a reservoir.^[2][8]
3. (Late Latin) The repeal of a law.^[6][8]

Related words

• ērogātor
• ērogātōrius
• ērogō
• superērogō

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b c d e Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
7. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
8. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
9. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson