laudator Latin · revision 31879

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la laus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''laudātor''' ''m'' (genitive laudātōris, feminine laudātrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The feminine is ''laudātrīx''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|laudō|-tor|t1=to praise]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|laudō]] is made from [[m|la|laus|t=praise]],^(de Vaan 2008) whose origin is uncertain: the only proposed link is with Germanic words for “song”, as [[got|𐌰𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸|tr=awiliuþ|t=song of praise]], which would require a preform ⟨*lou-Vd(ʰ)-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a person who praises, as Cicero's praisers of integrity and of pleasure, and Horace's old man, ''laudātor temporis ācti'' “a praiser of time gone by”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In particular it is one who delivers a funeral eulogy, as in Livy and Pliny the Younger, and in court a character witness for the accused, as in Cicero's speeches against Verres.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “one who praises”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is one who vouches that a witness is law-worthy, and one who gives assent to a deed.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of praisers and of character witnesses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the praiser of time gone by.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a funeral eulogist.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|praiser]], [[m|en|eulogist]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # One who delivers a funeral [[m|en|panegyric]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(law)'' A character witness for the accused.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' One who vouches for a witness; one who assents to a deed.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[laudatorius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[laudo|alt=laudō]]

+ * [[laus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}