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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēlātiō''' ''f'' (genitive dēlātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dēferō|-tiō|t1=to bring down; to report, denounce]], from the participle stem ⟨dēlāt-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan explains the participle [[m|la|lātus]] of [[fero|alt=ferō]] as continuing an old participle of the root of [[tollo|alt=tollō]], [[itc-pro|*tlāto-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD and Köbler find it first in Cicero,^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) who in the speech against Caecilius discusses a contest over who should be given the right to prosecute.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a denunciation or accusation, the laying of a charge: ''dēlātiōnem dare'' is to grant someone the right to act as prosecutor, and ''dēlātiō nōminis'' the lodging of a name for prosecution.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus and Curtius use it of informing against people.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In law it is also the tendering of an oath, as in Ulpian.^(OLD 2012) Glosses explain it as a report or betrayal;^(TLL) Servius glosses ''indicium'' with it and Macrobius equates it with [[grc|διαβολή|tr=diabolḗ|t=slander]].^(TLL) Wiktionary adds the sense of carrying, conveyance.^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it denunciation.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the right to prosecute.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius of an accusation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of informing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|denunciation]], [[m|en|accusation]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''dēlātiōnem dare'', to grant the right to prosecute.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(law)'' The tendering of an [[m|en|oath]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A carrying, conveyance.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[defero|alt=dēferō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}