praetura Latin · revision 30682

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h₁ei-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯ˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [preˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praetūra''' ''f'' (genitive praetūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is spelled ''prētūra'' in late manuscripts.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|praetor|t=praetor]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ūra]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains ⟨praetor⟩ as ⟨*prai-itōr⟩, “one who goes before”, from [[m|la|prae-|t=before]] and the root of [[eō|t=to go]], from [[ine-pro|*h₁ei-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it from Cicero on, who speaks of the jurisdiction of the praetorship and of a praetor made to resign it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Praetūra'' is the office of praetor, and also that of a propraetor governing a province;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short add the term of office.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero applies it to the Athenian generalship, saying that Pericles had the poet Sophocles as his colleague ''in praetūrā''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the praetorship and of Pericles' generalship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The office of [[m|en|praetor]], the [[m|en|praetorship]]; a propraetorship.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # The term of a praetor's office.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(of Athens)'' The office of [[m|en|strategos]], generalship.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[praetor]]

+ * [[praetōrius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}