praedium Latin · revision 30857

+ {{infobox|confidence=disputed|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈprae̯.di.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈprɛː.di.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praedium''' ''n'' (genitive praediī or praedī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions have the spelling ''predis''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Its origin is disputed.^(Wiktionary) The OLD and Köbler connect it with [[m|la|praes|t=surety, bondsman]], since the first sense is land pledged by a guarantor;^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary gives ⟨praes⟩ with the suffix [[m|la|-ium]] as a possibility.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reports Leumann's explanation of ⟨praes⟩ from ⟨*prae-wad-⟩, with [[m|la|vas|t=surety]], from [[ine-pro|*wodʰ-s|t=one who leads the defendant to court]], cognate with [[got|𐍅𐌰𐌳𐌹|tr=wadi|t=pledge]] and [[lt|vãdas|t=surety]].^(de Vaan 2008) Lewis & Short instead take the noun for ⟨*prae-hendium⟩, from [[m|la|prehendō|t=to seize]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Stichus'': people ask whether it is debt that drives him, or whether he has bought an estate (''an parārit praedium'').^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Cato's speeches it is land pledged to the state by a guarantor, as Cicero's formula ''praedibus et praediīs populō cautum est'', “the people was secured by sureties and pledged land”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its usual meaning is a landed property or estate, in town or country;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''praedium urbānum'' is land used chiefly for building.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein notes that ''praedium'' can be either a country house or a landed estate, as opposed to [[villa]], the house, and [[fundus]], the land.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “estate, farm, plot of land”.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval Latin it was an allod, land held in full ownership as opposed to a tenancy.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of buying an estate.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of land pledged to the state.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of town properties.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Land pledged as security by a guarantor.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A landed property, [[m|en|estate]], [[m|en|farm]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|allodium|alt=allod]], land held in full ownership.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[praediātor]]

+ * [[praediātūra]]

+ * [[praediātus]]

+ * [[praediolum]]

+ * [[domnipraedius]]

+ * [[praediālis]]

+ * [[praediātōrius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[praes]]

+ * [[villa]]

+ * [[fundus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}