dialecticus Latin · revision 33283

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc διαλεκτικός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [di.aˈɫɛk.tɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [di.aˈlɛk.ti.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dialecticus''' (feminine dialectica, neuter dialecticum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ The adverb is ''dialecticē''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|διαλεκτικός|tr=dialektikós|t=dialectical]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes that dialecticians examine every statement to judge whether it is true or false.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it means related to reasoning, logical, dialectical, especially of the method of the Academy;^(OLD 2012) Cicero has dialectical quibbles, ''captiōnēs dialecticae'', and Quintilian dialectical disputations.^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a masculine noun it is a logician or dialectician, also an Academic philosopher.^(OLD 2012) The feminine [[dialectica]] is the art of reasoning, logic: Varro, quoted by Isidore, contrasts it with rhetoric, the one compressing words and the other expanding them.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses the adverb ''dialecticē'' of arguing in the manner of the logicians.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of dialectic beside rhetoric.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of logicians and dialectical quibbles.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of dialectical disputations.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Related to reasoning, [[m|en|logical]], [[m|en|dialectical]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) of creatures, having reasoning power.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|logician]], dialectician;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) an Academic philosopher.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dialectica]]

+ * [[dialectos]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}