disiunctus Latin · revision 33310

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *(H)iunégti}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''disiūnctus''' (feminine ''disiūncta'', neuter ''disiūnctum''); first/second-declension adjective; comparative ''disiūnctior'', superlative ''disiūnctissimus''^(OLD 2012)

+ It is also spelled ''diiūnctus'' and ''disjūnctus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ The adverb is ''disiūnctim''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the perfect passive participle [[der|la|disiungō|t=to unyoke, separate]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|disiungō]] is a compound of [[m|la|dis-]] and [[m|la|iungō|t=to join, yoke]],^(Köbler 2010) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*jung-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*(H)iunégti|t=to yoke]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|युनज्मि|tr=yunájmi|t=I yoke]], [[grc|ζεύγνυμι|tr=zeúgnumi|t=to yoke]] and [[lt|jùngti|t=to tie, join, yoke]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of a war waged in two widely separated places, ''duobus in locis disiunctissimis''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means separated, distant or set apart, and of words or style disconnected.^(OLD 2012) It also means different or distinct: Cicero says that the teachers of living and of speaking were once not different people but the same.^(OLD 2012) Paulus in the Digest uses it of things treated separately, the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' of clauses distinguished by different synonyms, and Gellius of disjunctive propositions.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary notes its use as a taxonomic epithet, “separated, distinct”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of distant places and of distinct teachers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius, of disjunctive propositions.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st half of the 3rd century AD – Paulus, of things treated separately.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|separated|alt=Separated]], [[m|en|distant]], set apart;^(OLD 2012) of style, disconnected.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|different|alt=Different]], [[m|en|distinct]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) treated separately.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric, logic)'' Of propositions, [[m|en|disjunctive]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[disiungō]]

+ * [[disiūnctiō]]

+ * [[iungō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}