consideratus Latin · revision 33514

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kõː.siː.dɛˈraː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kon.si.deˈraː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsīderātus''' (feminine cōnsīderāta, neuter cōnsīderātum, comparative cōnsīderātior, superlative cōnsīderātissimus, adverb cōnsīderātē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|cōnsīderō|t=to examine, consider]], its perfect participle used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan connects the verb with [[m|la|sīdus|t=star, constellation]]: following Rix and Nyman, he takes the noun to have meant first a mark or target, so that the verb meant “to concentrate on a goal”, perhaps from the language of hunters; he reconstructs [[itc-pro|*sīþos]] for the noun.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'',^(Köbler 2010) which recommends a slower and more deliberate gesture, ''tardiōre et cōnsīderātiōre gestū''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used of actions that are thought out and careful, and of people who are cautious and deliberate.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Cicero says of Quinctius that in one matter he was a little less careful than he should have been.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The TLL glosses it as circumspect, cautious, provident.^(TLL) It has a comparative and a superlative, and the adverb ''cōnsīderātē''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of a deliberate gesture.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a careful person.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(of actions)'' Thought out, [[m|en|careful]], considered.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(of persons)'' Careful, [[m|en|deliberate]], [[m|en|cautious]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnsīderō]]

+ * [[cōnsīderātiō]]

+ * [[sīdus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Medieval British Latin also has a separate fourth-declension noun ''cōnsīderātus'', “consideration, regard”, in Bede.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}