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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la mandō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [kɔm.mɛnˈdaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [kom.menˈdat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''commendātiō''' ''f'' (genitive commendātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|commendō|-tiō|t1=to entrust, recommend]],^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) from [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|mandō|t=to entrust]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The Thesaurus finds it from Cicero on, and Cicero alone has about half of all its examples; among the poets only Publilius Syrus and Phaedrus use it, once each.^(TLL) His first sense is the entrusting of children or parents to someone's care.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ From entrusting it came to mean recommendation and praise, as in Cicero's book that will be published under his friend's name even without his own recommendation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In rhetoric it is the part of a speech that wins favour for a cause, and it is also the recommendation of a candidate for office.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it of the prompting of the eyes in memory, of favourable notice or esteem, and of what recommends a person, as a man “known only by himself, without any recommendation from his ancestors”.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In medieval texts it is an order or mandate, and the commendation of oneself to a lord, the homage of a vassal.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it “recommendation”.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of entrusting, recommendation and esteem.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD – Phaedrus uses it once.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * Middle Ages – The homage of a vassal to a lord.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # The entrusting of someone to another's care.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # [[m|en|recommendation|alt=Recommendation]], [[m|en|praise]]; the recommendation of a candidate.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # Favourable notice, [[m|en|esteem]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # A ground of recommendation, an advantage.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An order, mandate; the [[m|en|commendation]] of oneself to a lord, [[m|en|homage]].^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[commendo|alt=commendō]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}