salutatio Latin · revision 33046

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la salūs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salūtātiō''' ''f'' (genitive salūtātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|salūtō|-tiō|t1=to greet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) The verb is made from [[m|la|salūs|t=health, safety; greeting]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Cicero's speech against Piso, which asks who would think him worthy even of a common greeting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates it only from Tacitus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a greeting, a word Lewis & Short call rare but good prose:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has ''salūtātiōnem facere'', "to greet", and Tacitus ''salūtātiōnem reddere'', "to return a greeting".^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In particular it is the formal morning call a client paid on his patron, and later on the emperor;^(OLD 2012) Cicero mentions the crowd of the morning call, Seneca the morning calls, and Gellius people waiting for the emperor's reception.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Vitruvius uses it of the devotions passers-by make before temples.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is rarely a written greeting, as in Cicero's play on ''salūs'' and in the Vulgate.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medieval British sources it is also the greeting formula of a letter.^(DMLBS) English borrowed it in the late 14th century as [[m|en|salutation]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a greeting and of the morning call.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of devotions before temples.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a greeting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of returning a greeting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of the emperor's reception.^(Georges 1913)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate of a written greeting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * late 14th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|salutation]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

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

+ # A formal morning call paid by a [[m|en|client]] on his [[m|en|patron]], or on the emperor.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An act of devotion before a temple.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A written greeting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The greeting formula of a letter.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[salūtābundus]]

+ * [[salūtātor]]

+ * [[salūtātōrium]]

+ * [[salūtātōrius]]

+ * [[salūtātrix]]

+ * [[salūtigerulus]]

+ * [[salūtō]]

+ * [[salūs]]

+ * [[en|salutation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}