dissolutio Latin · revision 33665

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la solvō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dissolūtiō''' ''f'' (genitive dissolūtiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dissolvō|-tiō|t1=to break up, dissolve]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) [[m|la|dissolvō]] is a compound of [[m|la|dis-]] and [[m|la|solvō|t=to loosen]],^(de Vaan 2008) which de Vaan explains as a compound of ⟨*se-⟩ “away” and [[m|la|luō|t=to loosen]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL dates it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'',^(TLL) which uses it of the refutation of an argument.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the process of breaking up or disintegration: Cicero calls death a dissolution in which all sensation is extinguished,^(OLD 2012) and Tacitus has the breaking up of a ship.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca uses it of a loss of strength, “not rest but dissolution and languor”, and Pliny the Elder has ''dissolūtiō stomachī'', looseness of the bowels.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means a loss of moral strength, slackness, and the collapse of institutions, as of the law courts in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it is the lack of connecting words, asyndeton, and the refutation of an argument.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Church Latin has it as destruction, breaking down, dissolution,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval texts as profligacy and death.^(Niermeyer 1976) English [[m|en|dissolution]] (mid-14th century) first meant moral laxness; the sense “separation into parts” dates from the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of refutation.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of death and of the collapse of the courts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of languor.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English [[m|en|dissolution]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A breaking up, [[m|en|disintegration]], [[m|en|dissolution]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) [[m|en|death]].^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # A loss of strength;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''dissolūtiō stomachī'', looseness of the bowels.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A loss of moral strength, slackness;^(OLD 2012) ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|profligacy]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # A collapse, abolition.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' [[m|en|asyndeton|alt=Asyndeton]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) refutation.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dissolvō]]

+ * [[solvō]]

+ * [[dissolūtus]]

+ * [[en|dissolution]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}