auguratus Latin · revision 33606

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [au̯.ɡʊˈraː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [au̯.ɡuˈraː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''augurātus''' ''m'' (genitive augurātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Priscian reports that the ancients said ''augerātus''.^(TLL)

+ The Appendix to Probus notes that the ablative ''augurātū'' occurs only in the singular.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|augur|-ātus|t1=augur]], or [[m|la|auguror|t=to take the auguries]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tus]] of action nouns.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of a man's augurship and of the emblem of the augurship: ''insigne auguratus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the office of augur, the augurship:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero says that Romulus' augury was pastoral, not of the city, and Tacitus has a man invested with the augurship.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Younger speaks of receiving it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means augury, the practice of reading signs,^(OLD 2012) and Tertullian uses it as an equivalent of [[augurium]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the office of augur.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a man holding the augurship.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian, in the sense augury.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The office of [[m|en|augur]], augurship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|augury|alt=Augury]], the reading of omens.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[augur]]

+ * [[auguror]]

+ * [[augurium]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD has a separate adjective ''augurātus'', the participle of [[augurō]], meaning instituted after the auguries had been duly taken.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}