postulatum Latin · revision 32433

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *prḱ-sk-e/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''postulātum''' ''n'' (genitive postulātī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as a noun, it is the neuter participle [[der|la|postulō|t=to ask for, demand]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|postulō]] from [[m|la|poscō|t=to ask, demand]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*pork-ske/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*prḱ-sk-e/o-|t=to ask]].^(de Vaan 2008) The step between them is debated: Walde and Hofmann and Meiser start from an unattested participle [[m|la|*posk-to-]], Leumann and Sihler from a noun [[m|la|*posculum]] or [[m|la|*postulum]] “query”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero, who complains in the ''Verrines'' that a governor ignored a man's whole petition and case.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is what someone demands or asks for, a demand, petition or request: Cicero writes of complaints and demands brought before the senate.^(OLD 2012) Livy uses it often of the demands made in negotiations, of the Samnites and of a consul whose chief demand was that a king withdraw his garrisons.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a petition ignored.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of demands in negotiations.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|demand]], claim.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|petition]], [[m|en|request]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[postulo|alt=postulō]]

+ * [[postulatio|alt=postulātiō]]

+ * [[en|postulate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}