cohortatio Latin · revision 33737

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ko.(ɦ)ɔrˈtaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ko.orˈtat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cohortātiō''' ''f'' (genitive cohortātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cohortor|-tiō|t1=to encourage, exhort]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL dates it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'',^(TLL) which defines it as a speech that amplifies some offence and so moves the hearer to anger.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In general it is an exhortation or encouragement.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL counts 26 instances in Cicero and finds it very rare outside him except in the historians; the plural appears from Cicero on.^(TLL) Cicero writes to Atticus that his exhortation moves him greatly,^(Lewis & Short 1879) Caesar and Nepos use it of a commander encouraging his soldiers, and Tacitus of a leader's address.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is an exhortation.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of encouragement in letters and speeches.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of encouraging the legion.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a leader's exhortation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|exhortation]], [[m|en|encouragement]], especially of soldiers by their commander.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A speech that amplifies an offence to rouse the hearer to anger.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cohortatiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cohortor]]

+ * [[hortor]]

+ * [[adhortātiō]]

+ * [[exhortātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}