suasor Latin · revision 33453

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la suādeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [suˈaː.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [suˈaː.s̬or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''suāsor''' ''m'' (genitive suāsōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|suādeō|-tor|t1=to advise, recommend]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains the verb as an old causative meaning “to make sweet, render agreeable”, beside [[m|la|suāvis|t=sweet]]; it goes back to [[itc-pro|*swādeje-|t=to render agreeable]] and [[ine-pro|*su(o)h₂d-eie-|t=to render tasty]].^(de Vaan 2008) The same root gives [[grc|ἡδύς|tr=hēdús|t=sweet, pleasant]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler record it first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has ''mē suāsōre atque impulsōre id factum'', “that was done on my advice and at my urging”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short and Conte also cite a line of Ennius' ''Annals'', preserved by Gellius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a person who advises or urges a course of action,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) often with a genitive of what is urged: Cicero writes ''suāsor et impulsor profectiōnis'', of someone who urged and pressed for a journey,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Georges cites ''suāsor factī'' and ''dēditiōnis'' from Cicero.^(Georges 1913) In politics it is the speaker who supports a proposed law, as in Cicero's ''suāsor lēgis Cinciae'' and Livy's ''suāsor lēgis''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) In the schools of rhetoric it named the author of a ''suāsōria'', a speech of advice, in Seneca the Elder.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Ecclesiastical Latin kept the sense “adviser”,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval writers in Britain used it from Bede on, both for one who urges an action and for one who speaks for a cause: Alcuin writes ''melius est ūnus suāsor vēritātis quam mīlle adūlātōrēs falsitātis'', “one advocate of truth is better than a thousand flatterers of falsehood”.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of the man on whose advice something was done.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius uses it in the ''Annals''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero speaks of the ''suāsor'' of a law and of a journey.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy has ''suāsor lēgis''.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 800 – Alcuin contrasts the ''suāsor vēritātis'' with flatterers.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|adviser]], one who [[m|en|recommend|alt=recommends]] or urges a course of action.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # One who speaks in favour of a proposed law, an [[m|en|advocate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' The composer of a ''suāsōria'', a speech of advice.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[suāsōrius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suādeō]]

+ * [[persuādeō]]

+ * [[suāvis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}