consultatio Latin · revision 33255

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *kom-se/ol-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kõː.sʊɫˈtaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kon.sulˈtat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsultātiō''' ''f'' (genitive cōnsultātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cōnsultō#2|-tiō|t1=to deliberate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|cōnsultō#2]] is formed from [[m|la|cōnsulō|t=to deliberate, consult]],^(de Vaan 2008) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*kom-se/ol-e/o-|t=to consult]], from [[m|la|com-]] and [[ine-pro|*s(e)lh₁-e/o-|t=to take]].^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[grc|εἷλον|tr=heîlon|t=took]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whom all deliberation will be taken away from someone at once, ''amota ei erit omnis consultatio''.^(TLL) Köbler dates it from Terence.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the consideration and discussion of a problem, deliberation;^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of meetings for debate, in which war was being plotted, and of the matter under discussion.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' says that deliberative oratory consists in ''consultatio''.^(OLD 2012) It is also the putting of a question, a consultation: Pliny the Younger writes to Trajan that a matter is worth consulting him about, and Cicero has lawyers discussing the questions put to them.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin has it as consultation.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, “deliberation”.^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of deliberation and of questions put to lawyers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of meetings for debate.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|deliberation|alt=Deliberation]], consideration;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) a meeting for debate; a problem under discussion.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' The part of a speech that discusses general principles.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|consultation]], the putting of a question;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) the question put, an [[m|en|inquiry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnsultō#2]]

+ * [[cōnsulō]]

+ * [[cōnsultum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}