largitio Latin · revision 30864

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=106–43 BC, Laberius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫarˈɡiː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [larˈd͡ʒit.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''largītiō''' ''f'' (genitive largītiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|largior|-tiō|t1=to give freely]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb comes from [[m|la|largus|t=abundant, generous]], whose origin is uncertain: de Vaan doubts the old derivation from a stem for “fat”, since it is not sure that its long ⟨ā⟩ is original.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Laberius as its first author.^(Köbler 2010) The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' says the treasury could not bear such a large ''largītiō'', a distribution of land or doles.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a generous distribution of gifts, doles or land, and the bestowal of abstract things, as the grant of citizenship in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Given for gain, it is bribery: Cicero separates liberality from canvassing and ''largītiō''.^(OLD 2012) It is also the thing given, a bribe or dole.^(OLD 2012) Cicero warns that giving from one's own property drains the very source of kindness.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “donation, generosity, bribery”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is the charter recording a donation, and in the plural riches.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 106–43 BC – Laberius.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the grant of citizenship and of bribery.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|distribution]] of gifts, [[m|en|largess]]; a granting.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|bribery|alt=Bribery]], corruption.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A bribe, dole.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|charter]] of donation, ''(plural)'' riches.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[largītiōnālis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[largior]]

+ * [[largus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes [[dōnum]], a free present meant to please, [[mūnus]], a gift as a reward for services, and ''largītiō'', a gift from self-interested motives that wins people over and bribes them, usually for political ends.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}