recitatio Latin · revision 33113

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Ecclesiastical: [re.t͡ʃiˈtat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recitātiō''' ''f'' (genitive recitātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|recitō|-tiō|t1=to read aloud]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|recitō]] is a compound of [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|citō|t=to summon, call]], the frequentative that replaced [[m|la|cieō|t=to set in motion]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Cicero on, never in verse;^(TLL) Cicero uses it of the reading out of documents and letters in court.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first a technical word for reading documents aloud in legal proceedings: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' joins the exposition and the reading of a law, and Cicero speaks of reading out letters and of someone regretting his reading.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius uses it of the reading of documents too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) After Augustus it is the public reading of literary works: Tacitus speaks of the recitation of tragedies, and Pliny the Younger, Suetonius and Apuleius use it of such readings.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives "recitation" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of reading documents in court.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of the recitation of tragedies.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of readings.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A reading aloud (of documents in court).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|recitation]], a public reading of literary works.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[recitō]]

+ * [[recitātor]]

+ * [[citō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}