admonitio Latin · revision 32020

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''admonitiō''' ''f'' (genitive admonitiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|admoneō|-tiō|t1=to remind, warn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb is from [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|moneō|t=to remind, advise]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*moneje-]] and [[ine-pro|*mon-eie-|t=to make think of, remind]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|मानयति|tr=mānáyati|t=honours, respects]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes that places have so great a power of reminding us.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of reminding or a reminder, and in Pliny the Elder a recurring symptom of a disease that people feel even after they are cured.^(OLD 2012) It is also a recommendation or warning, and a mild rebuke: Cicero calls it a gentler kind of reproof.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is the pointing out of a fact, as distinct from formal argument in Cicero, and in Ulpian a summons to appear in court.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “admonition, warning”.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval texts it is also a sermon, a formal summons to perform an obligation, and an injunction to do one's duty.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a reminder and of a mild reproof.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian of a summons to court.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – Of a sermon and of a summons.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ * late 14th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|admonition]], through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|reminder]]; a recurring symptom of a disease.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Advice, [[m|en|warning]]; a mild [[m|en|rebuke]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A pointing out of a fact;^(OLD 2012) ''(law)'' a summons to appear in court.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|sermon]]; a summons to perform an obligation.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[admonitiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[admoneo|alt=admoneō]]

+ * [[moneo|alt=moneō]]

+ * [[en|admonition]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}