negotiatio Latin · revision 33728

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [nɛ.ɡoː.tiˈaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ne.ɡot.t͡siˈaː.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''negōtiātiō''' ''f'' (genitive negōtiātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''negōciātiō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|negōtior|-tiō|t1=to do business]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|la|negōtium|t=business]], made of [[m|la|nec|t=not]] and [[m|la|ōtium|t=leisure]].^(Wiktionary) Augustine explains it as leisure denied.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first,^(Köbler 2010) in a letter about going to the remains of a business in Asia,^(OLD 2012) that is, debts still to be collected.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is wholesale or banking business,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and under the Empire any trade:^(Georges 1913) Livy has a king diverting all the sea trade, Petronius a speaker who gives up trade to lend money to freedmen, and Quintilian calls charging fees for defending clients a trade to be abhorred.^(OLD 2012) Suetonius says Vespasian carried on dealings shameful even for a private man.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella has cattle trading, and the jurists the cloth trade.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The jurist Gaius uses it for a business, a shop or concern.^(OLD 2012) The Vulgate has “do not make my Father's house a house of trade”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has business, traffic and merchandise.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|negotiation]] came from it in the early 15th century, partly through Old French, first in the sense of trading.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of business in Asia.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of maritime trade.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius, of a business establishment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, “a house of trade”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English [[m|en|negotiation]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|business|alt=Business]], [[m|en|trade]], especially wholesale trade or [[m|en|banking]]; a commercial transaction.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A commercial establishment, a business.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|merchandise]], traffic.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[negōtiālis]]

+ * [[negōtiāns]]

+ * [[negōtiātor]]

+ * [[negōtiolum]]

+ * [[negōtior]]

+ * [[negōtiōsus]]

+ * [[negōtium]]

+ * [[en|negotiation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}