animadversio Latin · revision 32160

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la animadvertō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [a.nɪ.madˈwɛr.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [a.ni.madˈvɛr.si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''animadversiō''' ''f'' (genitive animadversiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|animadvertō|-tiō|t1=to notice; to punish]], formed on the participle stem.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) The verb is [[m|la|animus|t=mind]] with [[m|la|advertō|t=to turn towards]], literally to turn the mind to something.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''De oratore'' says knowing the regions is a matter of art, attention or habit.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that in good prose it is most frequent in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is paying attention or notice, often with action following;^(OLD 2012) Celsus uses it of medical treatment, Vitruvius of an inquiry, and Cicero of a remark in discourse.^(OLD 2012) From notice it turned to unfavourable notice, criticism or censure, as Cicero writes that a speaker who always used the same rhythms would not escape censure.^(OLD 2012) It is also punishment, as the censors' penalties in Cicero, and in an inscribed law the right to punish.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin has perception, observation, reproach, censure and punishment.^(Stelten 1995) English borrowed ''animadversion'' in the 1590s for criticism or blame.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of attention, of censure and of the censors' penalties.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of an inquiry.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of medical treatment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|animadversion]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|attention|alt=Attention]], notice; treatment; inquiry, consideration; a remark.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Unfavourable notice, [[m|en|criticism]], [[m|en|censure]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|punishment|alt=Punishment]]; the right to punish.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[animadversor]]

+ * [[animadvertō]]

+ * [[en|animadversion]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}