pollicitatio Latin · revision 32813

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *lik-ē-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pollicitātiō''' ''f'' (genitive pollicitātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pollicitor|-tiō|t1=to keep promising]], a frequentative of [[m|la|polliceor|t=to promise]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan files [[m|la|polliceor]] under [[m|la|licet|t=it is allowed]], from [[itc-pro|*lik-ē-|t=to be available, have the value of]]; after Nussbaum he explains the deponent as to make oneself available, then to offer or promise.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In Lewis & Short's earliest quotation Plautus fears that such a promise will bring someone into disrepute with the people.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a promise, usually in the plural.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) The TLL finds it in verse only in Plautus and Terence, and in prose from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Caesar, who uses it more often than ⟨prōmissiō⟩;^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero lacks it, and it is common in lawyers and Christian writers.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Caesar has someone persuaded by great rewards and promises.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Asinius Pollio, writing to Cicero, tells how Antony summoned a legion with the promise of 500 denarii a man.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In law Ulpian defines it as the promise of the offering party alone, unlike a pact, and the jurist Paulus says that no action arises from a bare promise.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Donatus treats it as more than ⟨prōmissiō⟩.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it promise, offer, pledge.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a promise.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of rewards and promises.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian defines it in law.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|promise]], offer, [[m|en|pledge]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(law)'' A one-sided promise, as opposed to a pact.^(TLL)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[polliceor]]

+ * [[pollicitor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}