consolatio Latin · revision 32412

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *sōlh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kõː.soːˈɫaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kon.soˈlat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsōlātiō''' ''f'' (genitive cōnsōlātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cōnsōlor|-tiō|t1=to console]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists [[m|la|cōnsōlor]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|sōlor|t=to comfort]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*sōl-]] and [[ine-pro|*sōlh₂-|t=mercy, comfort]], comparing [[grc|ἱλάσκομαι|tr=hiláskomai|t=to appease]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero, who writes that someone supported all his family with every service: tears, work and consolation.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of consoling and also the title of consolatory books, such as Cicero's own ''Consolatio''.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also uses it of allaying fears, of the state of being consoled, as one who will die with greater consolation, and of a consoling fact: “one consolation sustains me, that you lacked no duty of affection”.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it a word of good prose, most frequent in Cicero, and Seneca uses it in his dialogues.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) In Medieval Latin it also meant help or support, redress, sustenance, the giving of alms, and an extra allowance beyond a prebend.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it consolation, comfort.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of consolation and of a consoling thought.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – the Vulgate uses it in the Letter to the Hebrews.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English [[m|en|consolation]] is borrowed through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|consolation|alt=Consolation]], [[m|en|comfort]]; a consolatory treatise.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The allaying of fears.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A consoling fact or circumstance.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Help, support; sustenance; [[m|en|almsgiving]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An extra allowance beyond a prebend.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[consolor|alt=cōnsōlor]]

+ * [[solacium|alt=sōlācium]]

+ * [[en|consolation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}