haesitatio Latin · revision 33554

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=itc-pro *χais-ē-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''haesitātiō''' ''f'' (genitive haesitātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|haesitō|-tiō|t1=to stick, hesitate]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists [[m|la|haesitō]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|haereō|t=to stick]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*χais-ē-]]; he finds no credible comparison outside Italic.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Cicero on.^(Köbler 2010) In ''De oratore'' he exclaims at the fear, the doubt, the faltering and drawing out of words: ''quanta haesitatio tractusque verborum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first a faltering in speech, a stammering, as in Cicero and in Quintilian, who calls it unsightly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From this it came to mean mental hesitation, irresolution or doubt: Cicero writes of his own hesitation in a letter.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call the word rare but good prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Medieval writers use it for doubt and uncertainty, fear, and delay, as in the phrase ''sine ulla haesitatione''.^(MLW)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of faltering speech and of hesitation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of unsightly stammering.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A faltering in speech, [[m|en|stammering]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|hesitation|alt=Hesitation]], irresolution, doubt, [[m|en|perplexity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Delay; fear.^(MLW)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[haesitō]]

+ * [[haereō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}