rhetor Latin · revision 32144

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc ῥήτωρ}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rhētor''' ''m'' (genitive rhētoris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A Greek genitive ''rhētoros'' is also found.^(OLD 2012)

+ Medieval Latin also spells it ''rethor''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ῥήτωρ|tr=rhḗtōr|t=speaker, orator; teacher of rhetoric]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Köbler connects the Greek word with the root [[ine-pro|*wer-|t=to say, speak]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in ''De oratore'' has a speaker claim that those called rhetoricians, who hand down rules of speaking, understand nothing at all.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means a teacher of public speaking, a rhetorician;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Quintilian speaks of the schools of the rhetoricians.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also used of anyone trained in the techniques of speaking, probably always with some disparagement: Cicero says that one would not have called Lucius Torquatus a rhetorician so much as, in the Greek phrase, a statesman.^(OLD 2012) English borrowed ''rhetor'' through Old French in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of teachers of rhetoric and of a man trained in speaking.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of the schools of rhetoricians.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|rhetor]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A teacher of public speaking, a [[m|en|rhetorician]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # One trained in the techniques of speaking, usually disparaging; an [[m|en|orator]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[rhētoricus]]

+ * [[rhētorissō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rhētorica]]

+ * [[rhētoricē]]

+ * [[en|rhetor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}