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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *spend-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''spōnsiō''' ''f'' (genitive spōnsiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|spondeō|-tiō|t1=to pledge]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨spondeō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*spondeje/o-|t=to libate many times; pledge]], [[ine-pro|*spond-éye/o-|t=to libate]], cognate with [[grc|σπένδω|tr=spéndō|t=to pour a libation]] and [[hit|išpant-|t=to libate]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are Plautus, of a legal wager and of money given as security, and Köbler lists the Twelve Tables.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A legal and diplomatic term, it meant a solemn promise, guarantee, pledge, as in Cicero; in law a kind of wager in which a litigant undertook to pay a sum if his claim failed, as in Plautus and Cicero; and money given as security.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means promise, guarantee, security, agreement, bet.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a surety, pledge, and British Medieval Latin also for a promise of marriage.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a wager and of security.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a solemn promise.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A solemn [[m|en|promise]], [[m|en|pledge]], guarantee.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(law)'' A [[m|en|wager]] on the outcome of a suit.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Money given as [[m|en|security]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sponsiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[spondeō]]

+ * [[spōnsor]]

+ * [[spōnsa]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}