negotior Latin · revision 32363

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [nɛˈɡoː.ti.ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [neˈɡɔt.t͡si.or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''negōtior''' (present infinitive negōtiārī, perfect active negōtiātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|negōtium|-or|t1=business]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reports Benveniste's view that [[m|la|negōtium]] was a compound of [[m|la|nec|t=not]] and [[m|la|ōtium|t=leisure]] from the start, perhaps a calque of [[grc|ἀσχολία|tr=askholía|t=lack of leisure, occupation]]; [[m|la|ōtium]] itself has no etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first, of Roman citizens doing business at Lampsacus.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to carry on business, especially wholesale trade or banking: Cicero says a man went to Syracuse for leisure, not for business, and writes of a Curius who did business at Patrae.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) The present participle is used as a noun, [[negotians|alt=negōtiāns]], a trader or businessman.^(OLD 2012) The jurist Callistratus uses it transitively, of acquiring goods by trade.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is to trade or make a profit.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|negotiate]], from its participle, appeared in the 1590s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of Romans doing business in the provinces.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English [[m|en|negotiate]] is formed from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To do [[m|en|business]], [[m|en|trade]]; to act as a banker.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To acquire by trade.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[negōtiātiō]]

+ * [[negōtiātor]]

+ * [[negōtiātrix]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[negōtiālis]]

+ * [[negōtiāns]]

+ * [[negōtiolum]]

+ * [[negōtiōsus]]

+ * [[negōtium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}