suffragator Latin · revision 33690

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la suffrāgium}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''suffrāgātor''' ''m'' (genitive suffrāgātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''subfrāgātor''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|suffrāgor|-tor|t1=to vote for, support]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan treats the family under [[m|la|suffrāgium|t=vote]], based on a verb or noun ⟨*sub-frāg-⟩;^(de Vaan 2008) as its oldest senses concern voting, he notes the view that it belongs to [[m|la|frangō|t=to break]], those who shout in support of a candidate, though this is not proven.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whom a character threatens to punish someone and his supporters, ''te et suffragatores tuos ulciscar''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the Republic it is a person who supports a candidate for office, as voter or canvasser.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Cicero speaks of a man better known to historians than to voters, and the ''Commentariolum petitionis'' says that false friends can become firm supporters.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca has candidates who stop canvassing and start to work as supporters for others.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In a wider sense it is any favourer or supporter: Varro, Suetonius and Pliny the Younger use it so.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of supporters in general.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of voters for a candidate.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of canvassers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius, of a supporter.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|supporter]] of a [[m|en|candidate]] for office, as [[m|en|voter]] or canvasser.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A favourer, supporter, [[m|en|partisan]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suffrāgor]]

+ * [[suffrāgium]]

+ * [[refrāgor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}