emptor Latin · revision 31357

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁em-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈeːmp.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛmp.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēmptor''' ''m'' (genitive ēmptōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''emtor'', and in a Christian inscription ''imptor''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|emō|-tor|t1=to buy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives ⟨emō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*eme/o-|t=to take]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁em-e/o-|t=to take]], so that buying was first taking.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xum|emantur|t=may be taken]] and [[osc|emmens|t=they bought]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it in the ''Poenulus'' and the ''Persa'';^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler also gives Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a purchaser or buyer, as in Cicero's discussion of what a seller must tell a buyer, and Horace's buyer of disgrace at a high price.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) In law the ''emptor familiae'' is the nominal buyer of an estate in the old form of will, as in Suetonius.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Juvenal calls Philip of Macedon the “cunning buyer of Olynthus”, one who gets his way by bribery.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “buyer, purchaser”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is also a merchant and a tax-farmer.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of buyer and seller.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a buyer of disgrace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal of Philip as buyer of Olynthus.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|buyer|alt=buyer]], [[m|en|purchaser]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''emptor familiae'', the nominal buyer of an estate.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # One who gains by [[m|en|bribery]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A merchant; a tax-farmer.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[emō]]

+ * [[ēmptiō]]

+ * [[venditor]]

+ * [[mercātor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}