deprecatio Latin · revision 33104

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *preḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēprecātiō''' ''f'' (genitive dēprecātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dēprecor|-tiō|t1=to beg the removal of; plead]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|dēprecor]] is a compound of [[m|la|dē-]] and [[m|la|precor|t=to pray]], made from [[m|la|prex|t=prayer]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*prek-]] and the root noun [[ine-pro|*preḱ-|t=question]], the root of [[m|la|poscō]] and [[m|la|procus]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the OLD find it first in Plautus;^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) in the ''Captivi'' a character says there is no pleading and no escape for his treachery and misdeeds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a prayer to avert something: Cicero speaks of averting a danger,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Pliny the Elder of the prayer of the Vestal Tuccia when she was accused of unchastity.^(OLD 2012) It is also an invocation of the gods, especially to punish a perjurer, as in Cicero's speech for Roscius the actor, and in Pliny an imprecation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More often it is an appeal to pity, an entreaty or plea, and with the genitive a plea in mitigation of a deed or a fault: Cicero, Hirtius and Quintilian use it so.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In rhetoric it is the plea for pardon in which one admits the fault and asks forgiveness, as the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' defines it, rendering the Greek συγγνώμη.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Servius explains execration as the deprecation of adversities.^(TLL) In the Vulgate it is prayer, as in the Letter of James,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in Church and Medieval Latin it is prayer and supplication;^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976) Niermeyer also gives "aid", a tax.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of pleading.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of averting danger and invoking the gods.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of the prayer of the Vestal Tuccia.^(OLD 2012)

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

+ * c. 1500 – [[m|en|deprecation]] appears in English, as a prayer to avert evil.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|prayer]] to avert or remove something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An [[m|en|invocation]] of the gods (in prayer or oath); an [[m|en|imprecation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An appeal to pity, [[m|en|entreaty]], plea; a plea in mitigation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A plea for pardon in which the fault is admitted.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Prayer, supplication.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An aid, a tax.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēprecātiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēprecābilis]]

+ * [[dēprecābundus]]

+ * [[dēprecāneus]]

+ * [[dēprecātīvus]]

+ * [[dēprecātor]]

+ * [[dēprecātōrius]]

+ * [[dēprecātrix]]

+ * [[dēprecor]]

+ * [[en|deprecation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}