repudium Latin · revision 33288

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *pud-ē-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''repudium''' ''n'' (genitive repudiī or repudī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The OLD derives it from [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|pudeō|t=to be ashamed]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ium]],^(OLD 2012) and de Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|pudeō]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*pud-ē-|t=to be ashamed]]; the further origin of that verb is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008) The TLL, following Leumann, instead derives it from [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|pēs|t=foot]], through a possessive adjective ⟨*re-pod-⟩, “kicking the foot back against someone”.^(TLL) Köbler gives both explanations.^(Köbler 2010) Festus reports Verrius Flaccus' view that it was named from something shameful, ⟨ob rem pudendam⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whom a character says he has been ordered to announce the breaking-off of an engagement, ''is me nunc renuntiare repudium iussit tibi''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is the rejection of a prospective wife or husband, the breaking of an engagement;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''repudium renuntiāre'' and ''remittere'' are the usual phrases, in Plautus, Terence and Lucilius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It then means a divorce.^(OLD 2012) The Digest distinguishes it from [[dīvortium]]: an engagement to a future marriage can be the subject of a ''repudium'', but a betrothed woman is not properly said to divorce.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein describes it as a one-sided putting away of a bride or wife, while ''dīvortium'' was a dissolution by which each party was released.^(Döderlein 1874) Lewis & Short note that Cicero uses only ''dīvortium''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca applies it to desertion in marriage.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it means divorce.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a broken engagement.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, ''repudium renuntiāre''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of desertion in marriage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|rejection]] of a prospective wife or husband, the breaking of an [[m|en|engagement]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|divorce]], [[m|en|repudiation]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary) matrimonial desertion.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repudiō]]

+ * [[repudiōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pudeō]]

+ * [[pudor]]

+ * [[dīvortium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}