enuntio Latin · revision 32742

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēnūntiō''' (present infinitive ēnūntiāre, perfect active ēnūntiāvī, supine ēnūntiātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''ēnunciō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|nūntiō|t2=to announce]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan finds the origin of [[m|la|nūntius|t=messenger]] unclear: it has been connected with a root [[ine-pro|*neuH-|t=to cry]] or with [[novus]], but the second does not work morphologically.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whose ''Trinummus'' a man was entrusted with a secret on condition that he disclose it to no one.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first to make known what should be kept secret, divulge: Cicero has the mysteries, Caesar a plan betrayed to the Helvetii by an informer, Sallust a plot revealed to Cicero through Fulvia.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012) It is also to express an idea in words: Cicero says the same thing is said more elegantly with a word used figuratively.^(OLD 2012) In logic it is to assert a proposition, and Cicero calls it the foundation of dialectic that whatever is asserted is either true or false.^(OLD 2012) It is also to utter or pronounce words.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein notes that, unlike [[eloquor]], it looks only to the substance of what is said, not its form.^(Döderlein 1874) English [[m|en|enunciate]] dates from the 1620s, first meaning to declare.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of disclosing a secret.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of a betrayed plan.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of expressing an idea and of asserting a proposition.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of a proclamation of Jupiter.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1620s – English ''enunciate''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make known, [[m|en|disclose]], [[m|en|divulge]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To express in words;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''(logic)'' to [[m|en|assert]] (a proposition); to proclaim.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To utter, [[m|en|pronounce]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēnūntiātiō]]

+ * [[ēnuntiātīuus]]

+ * [[ēnuntiātrix]]

+ * [[ēnuntiātum]]

+ * [[ēnūntiābilis]]

+ * [[ēnūntiātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nuntio|alt=nūntiō]]

+ * [[en|enunciate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}