meditatio Latin · revision 32382

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la meditor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [mɛ.dɪˈtaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [me.diˈtat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''meditātiō''' ''f'' (genitive meditātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|meditor|-tiō|t1=to think over, practise]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan derives [[m|la|meditor]], probably, from an old participle *meditos of [[m|la|medeor]] in an older sense “to give judgement”, so that the verb first meant to judge constantly, to contemplate.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', which warns that a certain kind of opening makes the hearer suspect premeditation and artifice.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of thinking something over: Cicero calls the dwelling on a future evil foolish, and Tacitus has a man leave a decision to his own reflection.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also the planning or devising of something, and an intention.^(OLD 2012) Most often, Lewis & Short say, it is preparation and practice: Cicero names training, practice and habit together, and Pliny the Younger speaks of exercises on the field.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is meditation, reflection and contemplation.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' of premeditation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of practice and of dwelling on future evils.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of reflection and intention.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1200 – English [[m|en|meditation]] is borrowed from it, partly through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Reflection, [[m|en|contemplation]], pondering; a thought or idea.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Contemplation of a course of action, intention.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The devising or planning of something.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|practice|alt=Practice]], rehearsal, preparation; an exercise, especially a rhetorical one.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|meditation|alt=Meditation]], contemplation.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[meditatiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[meditābundus]]

+ * [[meditātē]]

+ * [[meditātīvus]]

+ * [[meditātor]]

+ * [[meditātōrium]]

+ * [[meditor]]

+ * [[en|meditation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}