deliberatio Latin · revision 32918

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=itc-pro *leiþra-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deː.liː.bɛˈraː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [de.li.beˈrat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēlīberātiō''' ''f'' (genitive dēlīberātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dēlīberō|-tiō|t1=to consider]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|dēlīberō]] is made from [[m|la|dē-]] and [[libra|alt=lībra]] “balance, pound”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|lībra]] to [[itc-pro|*leiþra-|t=pound]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero;^(Köbler 2010) the TLL finds the plural from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Cicero's ''De inventione'' on.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is careful consideration, usually with others, deliberation or consultation: Cicero writes of public deliberations in which advisers are called in, and of the deliberations on the state that someone held at home with the leading men.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In rhetoric it is a speech in the deliberative style, or the occasion for one, as one of the kinds of cause.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it a Ciceronian word, very rare elsewhere.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it deliberation, consultation.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is an ordinance or decree, an agreement, a condition; a second word, from a second medieval verb ''dēlīberāre'', means deliverance, warrant, donation and pay.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of public deliberations and of the deliberative speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 769–813 AD – Charters use the medieval word.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|deliberation|alt=Deliberation]], [[m|en|consultation]], consideration.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A deliberative speech, or the occasion for one.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|ordinance]], decree; an agreement, condition.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|deliverance|alt=Deliverance]]; a donation; pay.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[delibero|alt=dēlīberō]]

+ * [[libra|alt=lībra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}