discepto Latin · revision 32483

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [dɪsˈkɛp.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [diʃˈʃɛp.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''disceptō''' (present infinitive disceptāre, perfect active disceptāvī, supine disceptātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ A deponent form ''disceptor'' is also found.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|captō|t1=apart|t2=to grasp at]], a frequentative of [[m|la|capiō|t=to take, seize]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Lewis & Short explained it as a legal term, literally to seize and separate the parties, and so to settle a dispute.^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|capiō]] to [[itc-pro|*kap-i-]] and to [[ine-pro|*kh₂p-i-|t=to seize]] or a non-Indo-European source, comparing [[grc|κάπτω|tr=káptō|t=to gulp down]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest examples are in Cicero, who notes that disputants must agree on what the point at issue is.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to dispute, debate or argue, at law or in general.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It is also to act as judge or arbitrator and, transitively, to decide a dispute, as in Cicero's ''Pro Milone'', of the man put in charge of a court to judge these matters justly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it good prose but rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to dispute, discuss, determine or judge.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of debating and of judging a case.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|dispute]], debate, argue, at law or in general.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To act as judge, [[m|en|arbitrate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To judge, decide a dispute.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[disceptātiō]]

+ * [[disceptātor]]

+ * [[disceptātrix]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[capto|alt=captō]]

+ * [[capio|alt=capiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}