occupatus Latin · revision 31093

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''occupātus''' (feminine ''occupāta'', neuter ''occupātum'', comparative ''occupātior'', superlative ''occupātissimus''); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the perfect participle of [[m|la|occupō|t=to seize, occupy]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The verb is formed from [[m|la|ob-]] and the stem of [[m|la|capiō|t=to take]],^(OLD 2012) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*kapi-]] and [[ine-pro|*kh₂p-i-|t=to seize]], perhaps a non-Indo-European ⟨*kap-⟩, cognate with [[got|𐌷𐌰𐍆𐌾𐌰𐌽|tr=hafjan|t=to lift]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Plautus as its first author.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the senses of the verb it means seized or occupied, and especially busy, occupied or engaged.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “occupied, busy, engaged”.^(Stelten 1995) A late fourth-declension noun ''occupātus'' means “employment, occupation” (Claudianus Mamertus in Sidonius).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 431–486 AD – The noun ''occupātus'' in Sidonius' letters.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|busy|alt=Busy]], [[m|en|occupied]], engaged.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Seized, taken possession of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[occupō]]

+ * [[occupātiō]]

+ * [[capiō]]

+ * [[ōtiōsus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}