disceptator Latin · revision 33568

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *kap-i-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''disceptātor''' ''m'' (genitive disceptātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|disceptō|-tor|t1=to dispute, judge]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD analyses [[m|la|disceptō]] as a compound of [[m|la|dis-]] and [[m|la|captō|t=to try to grasp]],^(OLD 2012) which de Vaan derives from the participle of [[m|la|capiō|t=to take]]; he traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*kap-i-]] and [[ine-pro|*kh₂p-i-|t=to seize]], which may also be a root from outside Indo-European.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|κάπτω|tr=káptō|t=to gulp down]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL and Köbler record it first in Plautus' ''Mostellaria''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is one who examines a dispute in order to decide it, an arbitrator or judge.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Cicero defines it as the one who governs the matter and the verdict, ''rei sententiaeque moderator'',^(Lewis & Short 1879) and in his laws the praetor is to be ''iuris disceptator'', judging private cases or having them judged.^(Lewis & Short 1879) He contrasts a ''disceptator'' at home with a judge in court,^(Georges 1913) and Livy has Roman envoys sent as ''disceptatores'' over land disputed between Carthage and Masinissa.^(Georges 1913) Caesar uses it once,^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus has ''disceptator agrorum'', an arbitrator over lands,^(Georges 1913) and Apuleius joins it with ''arbiter'' for one who settles all quarrels among relatives.^(Georges 1913) In medieval British Latin it also means one who investigates or argues over texts, and later a pleader.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the praetor as judge of the law.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of Roman arbitrators between Carthage and Masinissa.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 639–709 AD – Aldhelm, of a shrewd examiner of the Scriptures.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|arbitrator]], [[m|en|umpire]], judge.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' One who investigates or argues; a pleader.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[disceptō]]

+ * [[disceptātiō]]

+ * [[captō]]

+ * [[en|disceptator]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}