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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōcūrātiō''' ''f'' (genitive prōcūrātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription of about AD 295 abbreviates it ''proc.''^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prōcūrō|-tiō|t1=to take care of, manage]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|prōcūrō]] is [[m|la|prō-]] and [[m|la|cūrō|t=to care for]], from [[m|la|cūra|t=care]], whose origin de Vaan finds uncertain: it may go back to [[itc-pro|*kois-]] or [[m|itc-pro|*kʷois-]], perhaps from the root [[ine-pro|*kʷei-|t=to heed]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes in ''On the Nature of the Gods'' that it makes little difference whether one denies the gods exist or deprives them of all care and activity.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of caring for something, then responsibility or charge over persons or things, and with ''cīvitātis'' or ''reī pūblicae'' the administration of the state, as Cicero speaks of his own share in public business.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Under the Empire it is the office of a procurator, an agent or an imperial official, as Seneca of someone excused from the post by Caesar.^(OLD 2012) In religion it is the expiation of a portent by sacrifice: Cicero calls for expiations and prayers.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it administration, management, procuring.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is supply, maintenance, provisions, the right of a lord to be fed by his tenants, and the administration of the sacraments.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of care, of state administration and of expiatory sacrifice.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of the office of a procurator.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of a case of bad management.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Care, attention, concern.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Charge, responsibility; [[m|en|administration]], [[m|en|management]]; with ''reī pūblicae'', government.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The office of a [[procurator|alt=prōcūrātor]], procuratorship.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(religion)'' [[m|en|expiation|alt=Expiation]] of a portent by sacrifice; an expiatory sacrifice.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Supply, maintenance, provisions; the right of [[m|en|purveyance]]; administration of the sacraments.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[prōcūrātiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[curatio|alt=cūrātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}