diiudico Latin · revision 32885

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la iūdicō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [diːˈjuː.dɪ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [diˈjuː.di.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīiūdicō''' (present infinitive dīiūdicāre, perfect active dīiūdicāvī, supine dīiūdicātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''dījūdicō'',^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and ''deiūdicō'' and ''disiūdicō'' occur.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|iūdicō|t2=to judge]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan derives [[m|la|iūdex|t=judge]] from a compound of [[ius|alt=iūs]] “law” with the root of [[dico|alt=dīcō]] “to say”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotations are in Terence, where a man says what comes to his mind and tells the other to decide.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to settle or decide a dispute, and a conflict: Caesar writes that the fortune of war was already decided.^(OLD 2012) It is also to perceive separately or distinguish: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' speaks of a charm more easily told by the ear than described, and Cicero of deciding between opinions.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Glosses explain it as ⟨discernit⟩.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to judge, discern, examine, decide.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, to decide.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, to decide between opinions.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of the decided fortune of war.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To settle, [[m|en|decide]] (a dispute or conflict); to [[m|en|adjudicate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To distinguish, [[m|en|discern]]; to decide between.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dījūdicātiō]]

+ * [[dījūdicātrīx]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[iudico|alt=iūdicō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}