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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *tlh₂-to-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīlātiō''' ''f'' (genitive dīlātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|differō|-tiō|t1=to put off]], formed on the participle dīlātus.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The participle [[m|la|lātus|t=carried]] of [[m|la|ferō]] goes back, in de Vaan's account, to [[itc-pro|*tlāto-]] and [[ine-pro|*tlh₂-to-|t=lifted]], from the root of [[m|la|tollō|t=to lift]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero, who speaks of putting off time and of postponing elections.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a putting off, a delay: Livy speaks of a war waged softly and by delays.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In law it is an adjournment, and an inscription calls it humane to grant one for producing proof.^(OLD 2012) Apuleius uses it of an interval in space.^(OLD 2012) The TLL records the plural in Caelius, Livy, Velleius, Seneca and Pliny the Elder.^(TLL) The early medieval law codes use it, and Church Latin glosses it delay.^(Köbler 2010)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of postponing elections.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a war waged by delays.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of an interval in space.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|postponement]], [[m|en|delay]], putting off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' An [[m|en|adjournment]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An interval of space.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[differo|alt=differō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A noun dīlātiō formed from [[dilato|alt=dīlātō]], "to widen", appears in councils and charters.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}