largitor Latin · revision 33539

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la largus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫarˈɡiː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [larˈd͡ʒiː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''largītor''' ''m'' (genitive largītōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|largior|-tor|t1=to give generously]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb is formed from [[m|la|largus|t=abundant, generous]], whose origin is unclear.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Cicero on.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) In the fourth Catilinarian Cicero calls Lentulus ''largitorem et prodigum'', a briber and a spendthrift.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In a good sense it is a generous giver or benefactor: Sallust has someone generous with many things and above all with money, and Livy a general who was not at all generous, which made the booty he gave the soldiers the more welcome.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Poets use it of gods and rivers as givers: Statius has the horned giver of everlasting water, Silius Bacchus as giver of the sacred liquor, and Persius calls the belly the master of art and giver of wit.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder calls the Po a bestower of fertility.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In a bad sense it is one who gives money corruptly, a briber,^(OLD 2012) as in Cicero and in Tacitus' ''raptor, largitor'', plunderer and briber.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that Cicero does not use the neutral sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medieval Latin it appears in charters and church councils.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of Lentulus as a briber.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust, of a man generous with money.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of a general who did not give freely.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a plunderer and briber.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A liberal giver, [[m|en|bestower]], [[m|en|benefactor]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # One who gives money corruptly, a [[m|en|briber]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[largior]]

+ * [[largus]]

+ * [[largītiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}