festinatio Latin · revision 31679

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [fɛs.tiːˈnaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [fes.tiˈnat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''festīnātiō''' ''f'' (genitive festīnātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[festīnō|t=to hurry]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan, following Schrijver, traces ⟨festīnō⟩ to a noun [[itc-pro|*fristi-|t=haste]], from [[ine-pro|*bʰristi-|alt=*bhristi-]], cognate with [[cy|brys|t=haste]];^(de Vaan 2008) Vine thinks the verb was built on an older adjective, the later attested [[festīnus|t=hasty]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes in a letter that he hurried home with all speed.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means speed, haste, hurry, also in the plural, and promptness in dealing with a situation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Often it is undue haste or impatience, as in Cicero's ''Philippics'': “my haste is greedy not only for victory but for speed”.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of hastening a process, of wine made from unripe grapes.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “haste, hurry, dispatch, speed”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of hurrying home and of impatient haste.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of hastening wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|haste|alt=Haste]], [[m|en|hurry]], speed; promptness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Undue haste, [[m|en|impatience]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A hastening of a process.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[festīnō]]

+ * [[cōnfestim]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}