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restipulatio

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [rɛs.tɪ.pʊˈɫaː.ti.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [res.ti.puˈlat.t͡si.o][1]

Forms

restipulātiō f (genitive restipulātiōnis); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin restipulor (“to demand a counter-guarantee”) + -tiō,[2][1] and that verb is re- plus stipulor (“to exact a formal promise”).[2][1] De Vaan derives the simple verb from stipula (“stalk, straw”), with an original sense of drawing or cutting straws, a development he dates early because the verb Umbrian stiplatu has the same legal meaning.[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler records it first in Cicero,[4] who uses it in his speech for the actor Roscius.[5][6]

Semantic evolution

It is a legal term: in a stipulātiō the guarantor could in turn demand a counter-guarantee from the stipulator, and restipulātiō names that demand or the counter-obligation it created.[2][5] Georges glosses it as a mutual promise.[7] Besides Cicero it appears in the jurist Gaius.[5][6]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in a speech.[5][4]
  • 140–180 AD – Gaius uses it in his Institutes.[5][6]

Meanings

Noun

  1. (law) The demanding of a counter-guarantee; a counter-obligation, counter-engagement.[2][5]

References

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