negotiator Latin · revision 31657

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [nɛ.ɡoː.tiˈaː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ne.ɡot.t͡siˈaː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''negōtiātor''' ''m'' (genitive negōtiātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions also write ''negotiat-'' with ''-tat-'', ''negoc-'' and ''negut-''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|negōtior|-tor|t1=to do business]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The verb comes from [[negōtium|t=business]], which de Vaan, after Benveniste, takes as a compound ⟨*nec-ōtium⟩ “non-leisure”, perhaps modelled on [[grc|ἀσχολία|tr=askholía|t=lack of leisure, occupation]]; [[ōtium|t=leisure]] itself has no etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of a dishonest dealer and asks whether a man was a merchant or a wholesale trader.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the wholesale dealer or businessman;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Lewis and Short compare the shopkeeper ''institor'' and the merchant ''mercātor'', and also give the sense “banker”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) An inscription uses it as a title of the god Mercury.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “businessman, merchant”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|negotiator]] meant “businessman” in the 1590s and “one who negotiates” from about 1600.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of wholesale dealers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English [[m|en|negotiator]] “businessman”.^(Etymonline)

+ * c. 1600 – English sense “one who negotiates”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A wholesale [[m|en|trader]] or dealer, a businessman; a [[m|en|banker]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A cult title of [[m|en|Mercury]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[connegotiātor]]

+ * [[negōtiātōrius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[negōtiālis]]

+ * [[negōtiāns]]

+ * [[negōtiātiō]]

+ * [[negōtiolum]]

+ * [[negōtior]]

+ * [[negōtiōsus]]

+ * [[negōtium]]

+ * [[ōtium]]

+ * [[en|negotiator]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}