foedero

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [ˈfoe̯.dɛ.roː]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfɛː.de.ro]^[1]

Forms

foederō (present infinitive foederāre, perfect active foederāvī, supine foederātum); first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is a back-formation from foederātus “allied by treaty”, from foedus, ⟨foederis⟩ “treaty”.^[2][3][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis and Short say the finite verb is late Latin, and cite Ammianus' cum foederārētur concordia “when concord was sealed by treaty”.^[4][5] Köbler dates Ammianus c. 390 AD.^[6]

Semantic evolution

It meant to seal, ratify an agreement, to establish by treaty, and the glosses render it to join, unite, associate.^[2][4][3]

In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to establish by agreement, make a treaty.^[7] Its Late Latin noun foederātiō gave English federation in 1721 through French.^[8]

Timeline

• c. 390 AD – Ammianus uses it of sealing concord.^[4][6]
• 1721 – English federation is recorded, from foederātiō.^[8]

Meanings

Verb

1. To seal by treaty, ratify; to unite, ally.^[2][4]

Word family

• cōnfoederō
• foederātiō
• infoederatus

Related words

• foedus
• foederātus
• English federation
• English federal

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
5. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
6. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
7. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
8. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com