expostulo Latin · revision 32740

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la postulō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈspɔs.tʊ.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ekˈspɔs.tu.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''expostulō''' (present infinitive expostulāre, perfect active expostulāvī, supine expostulātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|postulō|t2=to demand]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotation is in Plautus' ''Mostellaria'', where a man thought a dead man was complaining because the door had been knocked on.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Intransitively it is to remonstrate, and with an object to complain about something: in Terence a man wonders whether to go and complain to someone of an injury.^(OLD 2012) It also means to demand or call for, as in a letter of Vatinius to Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that in this sense it is mostly post-Augustan, where classical writers used [[exposco|alt=exposcō]], and that it is not found in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Donatus explains the noun ⟨expostulātiō⟩ in his commentary on that line of Terence.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to demand vehemently, require, dispute.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|expostulate]] is recorded from the 1530s, first meaning to demand or claim.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, to complain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, to complain of an injury.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English ''expostulate''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|remonstrate]], [[m|en|expostulate]]; to complain about something.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To demand urgently, call for.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[expostulātiō]]

+ * [[expostulatus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[postulo|alt=postulō]]

+ * [[en|expostulate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}