oboediens Latin · revision 33241

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂eu-is}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''oboediēns''' (genitive ''oboedientis''; comparative ''oboedientior'', superlative ''oboedientissimus''); third-declension one-termination adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ Also spelled ''obēdiēns''.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|oboediō|t=to obey]], its present participle used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan explains [[m|la|oboediō]] together with [[m|la|audiō|t=to hear]] from an Italic compound of [[ine-pro|*h₂eu-is|t=clearly]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰh₁-ie/o-|t=to render]], “to make manifest”;^(de Vaan 2008) cognate with [[grc|ἀΐω|tr=aḯō|t=to perceive, hear]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''dictō oboediēns'', “obedient to the word”, of a pupil who had not yet stopped obeying his teacher.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is obedient or submissive to persons and commands.^(OLD 2012) Cicero says that the god is subject or obedient to no nature, and Köbler dates it from him.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010) Livy often has it of soldiers and peoples: no one was more obedient to the orders of the living than the speaker, a soldier most obedient to commands, the plebs ''dictō audiēns atque oboediēns'', and a people kept obedient for new plans.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012) Sallust says that everything else was favourable and obedient.^(Georges 1913) Seneca uses it of impulses that should be tempered and obedient.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, ''dictō oboediēns''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the god obedient to no nature.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of obedient soldiers.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of obedient impulses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|obedient|alt=Obedient]], [[m|en|submissive]], compliant;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) ''dictō oboediēns'', obedient to a command.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Of actions, done under orders, controlled.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[oboediō]]

+ * [[oboedientia]]

+ * [[audiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}