litigiosus Latin · revision 33655

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [liː.tɪ.ɡiˈoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [li.ti.d͡ʒiˈɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''lītigiōsus''' (feminine lītigiōsa, neuter lītigiōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Some manuscripts spell it ''lītigōsus''.^(TLL)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lītigium|-ōsus|t1=quarrel]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|lītigium]] belongs to [[m|la|lītigō|t=to go to law]], from [[m|la|līs|t=lawsuit]];^(Köbler 2010) de Vaan traces [[m|la|līs]], archaic ⟨stlīs⟩, to [[itc-pro|*slī-ti-|t=accusation, dispute]], and perhaps [[ine-pro|*sliH-ti-]], comparing [[sga|líthech|t=accused person]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of a house not frequented by litigious men, ''a litigiosis hominibus'', and of a man not at all litigious.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of persons it means fond of going to law, litigious, and in general quarrelsome or contentious;^(OLD 2012) Sidonius Apollinaris writes of two old women than whom nothing was more quarrelsome.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of things it means full of disputes: Cicero has a contentious discussion and Ovid the quarrelsome law courts.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of property it is the subject of a lawsuit, disputed, as in Cicero's small and disputed farm, ''in parvo et eo litigioso praediolo''.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin has it as contested, claimed, disputed or quarrelsome.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of litigious men and a disputed farm.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of the quarrelsome law courts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 431–486 AD – Sidonius Apollinaris, of two quarrelsome old women.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Fond of going to law, [[m|en|litigious]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) [[m|en|quarrelsome]], [[m|en|contentious]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Full of disputes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of property: the subject of a lawsuit, [[m|en|disputed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lītigium]]

+ * [[lītigō]]

+ * [[līs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}