tutela Latin · revision 30969

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la tueor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [tuːˈteː.ɫa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [tuˈtɛː.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tūtēla''' ''f'' (genitive tūtēlae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from ⟨tūt-⟩, the stem of [[m|la|tueor|t=to watch over, protect]], with the suffix [[m|la|-ēla]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan takes “watch over, protect” as the first meaning of the verb and finds attractive a derivation from [[ine-pro|*tewh₂-|t=to be strong]], the root of [[sa|तवस्|tr=tavás|t=strong]], so “keep strong, protect”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In Plautus' ''Trinummus'' a slave says he is a fool to care for public affairs rather than guard his own back.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is guardianship, protection or custody, and concretely a source of safety: Cornelius Severus calls Cicero the one protection of the troubled.^(OLD 2012) It is the guardian deity of a place or a ship, as Ovid's Priapus, guardian of gardens.^(OLD 2012) In law it is the guardianship of a minor, and ''in suam tūtēlam venīre'' is to come of age.^(OLD 2012) It is also the thing protected, as Horace's girls and boys in Diana's care, a ward, and the upkeep of people, animals or buildings.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “charge, care, safeguard, guardianship, guardian, protector”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is protection given to a person, the charge of a church's lay advocate, and the dedication of a church to a patron saint.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

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

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of those in a goddess's care.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a guardian god.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|guardianship|alt=Guardianship]], protection, care, [[m|en|tutelage]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A protector; a guardian deity.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(law)'' Guardianship of a minor.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A charge, someone protected; a [[m|en|ward]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Maintenance, upkeep.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The charge of a church's [[m|en|advocate]]; the dedication of a church to a patron saint.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[prōtūtēla]]

+ * [[tūtēlāris]]

+ * [[tūtēlārius]]

+ * [[tutelator]]

+ * [[tutelatus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tueor]]

+ * [[tūtor]]

+ * [[tūtus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}