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obiectio

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ɔbˈjɛk.ti.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [obˈjɛk.t͡si.o][1]

Forms

obiectiō f (genitive obiectiōnis); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin obiciō (“to throw before, oppose”) + -tiō.[1][2]

Earliest recorded meaning

According to the TLL it is read from Tertullian on;[2] in his work addressed to his wife it means a reproach (obiectio nominis).[3][4]

Semantic evolution

The literal sense, a putting or throwing of something in the way, appears in Ambrose (a ship's prow) and in Arnobius (a barrier of rocks).[3][5] The figurative senses were a reproach and, in argument, an objection raised against a view, as in Augustine and Macrobius;[3][4] the rhetoricians also used it for the figure called anthypophora.[3] In the manuscripts it is sometimes confused with subiectiō.[2] Medieval Latin used it for a legal charge or accusation and for an objection.[6]

Timeline

  • c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it of a reproach.[2][3][7]
  • 297–310 AD – Arnobius uses it of a barrier of rocks.[3][7]
  • c. 340–397 AD – Ambrose uses it of putting something before and of an objection.[3][5][7]
  • 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it of an objection in argument.[3][4][7]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A throwing or putting before; a barrier.[3][5]
  2. A reproach, upbraiding.[3][4][8]
  3. An objection.[3][4][6]
  4. (rhetoric) The figure of answering an objection, anthypophora.[3]
  5. (Medieval Latin) A charge, accusation.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b c d e Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  5. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  6. ^ a b c Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
  7. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  8. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson