persuasio Latin · revision 32394

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *sweh₂d-u-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''persuāsiō''' ''f'' (genitive persuāsiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|persuādeō|-tiō|t1=to convince]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists [[m|la|persuādeō]] with [[m|la|suādeō|t=to recommend, advise]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|suāvis|t=sweet]]: [[m|la|suādeō]] is a causative, [[itc-pro|*swādeje-|t=to render agreeable]], and its sense “recommend” grew out of “make sweet, make agreeable”.^(de Vaan 2008) He traces the adjective to [[ine-pro|*sweh₂d-u-|t=sweet]] and compares [[grc|ἡδύς|tr=hēdús|t=sweet, pleasant]] and [[sa|स्वादु|tr=svādú-|t=sweet]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' has it first, among the excuses a defending counsel may fall back on: ignorance, folly, force, persuasion.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is persuasion to a course of action and the act of making someone believe something: Cicero defines the orator's task as speaking suitably for persuasion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Quintilian uses it of persuasiveness.^(OLD 2012) From Seneca on it is also the result, a firm belief or conviction: Seneca writes of overturning a wrong conviction of the mind, and Tacitus of a popular belief that the shapes of horses can be seen.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it in prose in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', in Cicero's ''De inventione'' and, from Seneca on, and in verse only in Prudentius and Marius Victor.^(TLL) In Church Latin it is conviction, belief or doctrine.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of persuasion as the aim of oratory.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca the Younger of a conviction of the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English [[m|en|persuasion]] is borrowed from it, partly through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|persuasion|alt=Persuasion]], inducement; the act of convincing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|persuasiveness|alt=Persuasiveness]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A firm belief, [[m|en|conviction]]; a popular belief; a false notion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[persuādeō]]

+ * [[suadeo|alt=suādeō]]

+ * [[en|persuasion]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}