redemptor Latin · revision 33908

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *h₁em-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈdɛmp.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈdɛmp.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''redēmptor''' ''m'' (genitive redēmptōris, feminine redēmptrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|redimō|-tor|t1=to buy back; contract for]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|redimō]] is a compound of [[m|la|red-]] and [[m|la|emō|t=to buy, take]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*eme/o-|t=to take]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁em-e/o-|t=to take]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato uses it first,^(Köbler 2010) in ''De agri cultura'' of damage done to the owner by a contractor's work.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short note that in all periods it is a contractor, one who undertakes work by contract:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero tells of a contractor who had undertaken to build a column, Livy and Horace use it so, and Pliny the Elder speaks of the contractor for the upkeep of the Capitol.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also one who farms a bridge's tolls or other revenues.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In law it is one who buys up the rights in a lawsuit,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and one who frees a debtor by paying his creditor;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Calpurnius' declamations use it of a ransomer.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is the Redeemer, Christ, who ransoms the world from sin, in Augustine, Jerome and the Vulgate (Job, Acts),^(Lewis & Short 1879) and so in Medieval Latin.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of a contractor.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a contractor for a column.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian of one who buys up lawsuits.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate of the Redeemer.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine of the Redeemer.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|contractor]], one who undertakes work or a public service by contract; a farmer of revenues.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' One who buys up the rights in a lawsuit; one who pays a debtor's creditor.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A [[m|en|ransomer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The [[m|en|Redeemer]], Christ; a rescuer, saviour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[redimō]]

+ * [[redēmptiō]]

+ * [[emō]]

+ * [[conductor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}