emptio Latin · revision 32089

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h₁em-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēmptiō''' ''f'' (genitive ēmptiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''emtio''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|emō|-tiō|t1=to buy]], formed on the participle stem ⟨empt-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces [[m|la|emō]], first “to take”, to [[itc-pro|*eme/o-|t=to take]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁em-|t=to take]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|emmens|t=they have bought]], [[sga|ar·foím|t=to receive]] and [[lt|im̃ti|t=to take]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''Pro Roscio Amerino'' calls a purchase of goods scandalous.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means the act of buying, a purchase, and by extension the thing bought, as when Cicero writes that he wants none of those purchases.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In law it is the contract of purchase: Gaius and Justinian's ''Institutes'' treat ''emptio et venditio'', purchase and sale, and the jurist Scaevola uses it of a deed of purchase.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin keeps purchase or buying.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval Latin it can mean the thing bought, or the fee paid when a holding changed hands.^(Niermeyer 1976) English borrowed ''emption'' in the late 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a purchase and of things bought.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it in his book on farming.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius on the contract of purchase.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 15th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|emption]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The act of buying, a [[m|en|purchase]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The thing bought.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' A [[m|en|deed]] of purchase; the contract of purchase.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The fee due on the transfer of a holding, [[m|en|relief]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[coēmptiō]]

+ * [[coēmptiōnālis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[emo|alt=emō]]

+ * [[emptor|alt=ēmptor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}