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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la adūlor}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adūlātiō''' ''f'' (genitive adūlātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|adūlor|-tiō|t1=to fawn on, flatter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) The origin of the verb is uncertain: it has been compared with [[lt|valai|t=horse's tail]], as of a dog wagging its tail, but de Vaan notes the vowel does not fit and has proposed a link with [[m|la|aveō|t=to be eager]] and [[m|la|avidus|t=eager]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, who speaks of the loving fawning of dogs on their masters (''canum adūlātiō'').^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is the fawning of a dog, and Nonius says the word properly belongs to dogs and was carried over to people by usage; it is also said of courting pigeons.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of prostration as an act of homage.^(OLD 2012) Above all it is servile flattery: Cicero says there is no worse plague in friendship.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short note it is common in the historians after Augustus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “flattery”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''adulation'' (late 14th century) comes from it through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of dogs fawning and of flattery in friendship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of prostration.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English [[m|en|adulation]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(of dogs)'' Fawning.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Prostration, [[m|en|obeisance]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Servile [[m|en|flattery]], [[m|en|adulation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[adūlor]]

+ * [[adūlātor]]

+ * [[en|adulation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}