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repertor

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [rɛˈpɛr.tɔr][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [reˈpɛr.tor][1]

Forms

repertor m (genitive repertōris, feminine repertrīx); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin reperiō (“to find”) + -tor.[2][1][3] That verb is re- with pariō (“to bring forth, procure”), which de Vaan traces to Proto-Italic *par-(e)i- (“to bear; find”) and Proto-Indo-European *pérh₃-i- (“to provide”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler dates it from Varro,[5] who calls Bacchus the discoverer of the vine.[6]

Semantic evolution

It is an originator, author or inventor: Ovid has the inventor of the vine and of honey, Phoebus as the inventor of song and of medicine, and the deviser of a punishment.[6][2] It is also a discoverer, as Petronius' discoverer of the Hydaspes.[2] Lewis & Short note that Cicero and Caesar do not use it, preferring inventor.[6] Church Latin glosses it discoverer, inventor, author.[7]

Timeline

  • 116–27 BC – Varro of the discoverer of the vine.[6][5]
  • 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of inventors and devisers.[6]
  • before 66 AD – Petronius of a discoverer.[2][5]

Meanings

Noun

  1. An originator, inventor, deviser, author.[2][6][1][7]
  2. A discoverer.[2][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ 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 Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b c d e f Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  7. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson