disputatio Latin · revision 31493

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *pHu-tó-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''disputātiō''' ''f'' (genitive disputātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|disputō|-tiō]], from the verb “to argue, debate”,^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) a compound of [[m|la|dis-]] and [[putō|t=to prune, reckon]].^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan notes that ⟨putō⟩ first meant to prune a tree, then to ponder or reckon, and derives it from ⟨putus⟩ “clean”, from [[itc-pro|*puto-|t=cut off, clean]] and [[ine-pro|*pHu-tó-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of the written disputations of Protagoras on great subjects.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a discussion, argument or dispute, a dissertation in the form of a debate, as the five days of Cicero's ''Tusculan Disputations'', and the discussion of a subject, as Vitruvius' discussion that astrologers share with musicians.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella has it once in the older sense of computing or calculating.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “argumentation, dispute, debate”.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval Latin it is the formal disputation of the schools.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of Protagoras' disputations and of the ''Tusculan Disputations''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of a shared discussion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of calculating.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A discussion, argument, debate, [[m|en|dispute]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A treatise in the form of a debate.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Calculating, computing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|disputation]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[disputātiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[disputō]]

+ * [[putō]]

+ * [[disceptātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}