rogatus

Forms

rogātus m (genitive rogātūs); fourth declension^[1] Only the ablative rogātū is found.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is from Latin rogō (“to ask”) + -tus, a verbal noun of the fourth declension.^[2][1][4] De Vaan takes rogō as a denominative from Proto-Italic *rogo- (“request; stretching out”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵ-o- (“stretching”), perhaps of the arms stretched out in begging.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus.^[5][4]

Semantic evolution

It is the act of asking, a request, always in the ablative: Cicero writes to Atticus that Chilius asks him something and that he himself writes at Chilius' request.^[3][2] Lewis & Short call it Ciceronian.^[3] Church Latin glosses it request, petition.^[6] In Medieval Latin it is a tallage, a levy.^[7]

Timeline

• c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^[5][4]
• 81–43 BC – Cicero, at someone's request.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. An asking, request, entreaty (in the ablative, rogātū, at the request of).^[2][3][1][6]
2. (Medieval Latin) A tallage.^[7]

Related words

• rogō
• rogātiō

Usage notes

rogātus, -a, -um is also the perfect participle of rogō, asked.^[8]

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. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ a b c de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
7. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
8. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.