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erogatio

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [eː.rɔˈɡaː.ti.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [e.roˈɡat.t͡si.o][1]

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]
  • 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