subscriptio Latin · revision 33939

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊpˈskriːp.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subscrīptiō''' ''f'' (genitive subscrīptiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''suscrīptiō'' and ''subscrībtiō''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|subscrībō|-tiō|t1=to write underneath]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) That verb is made from [[m|la|sub-|t=under]] and [[m|la|scrībō|t=to write]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in a letter to Atticus says he noticed a portrait of Africanus from the inscription under the statue.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is anything written below or after something:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) an inscription on the base of a statue, as in Cicero; a closing greeting in a letter, whose absence Suetonius records;^(OLD 2012) and an imperial rescript written under a petition in reply, as in Gaius.^(OLD 2012) It also means an entry under a heading, as Cicero's register of land, and a censor's note against a citizen's name.^(OLD 2012) From the act of signing it came to mean a signature or endorsement, as in the jurists,^(OLD 2012) and in law the prosecutor's endorsement of the charge, which Ulpian says must come first.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means the charge itself in an indictment, as in Pliny the Younger,^(OLD 2012) and the role of assistant prosecutor: Cicero speaks of men who asked to join the prosecution whoever was given the lead.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "signature, a note below" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|subscription]] came from it partly through French around 1400, first meaning writing at the end of a document.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an inscription under a statue and of an assistant prosecutor.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of a letter without a closing greeting.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius of an imperial rescript.^(OLD 2012)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian of the prosecutor's endorsement.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 1400 – [[m|en|subscription]] appears in English.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Something written underneath: an [[m|en|inscription]] on a statue base; a closing greeting; an imperial [[m|en|rescript]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An entry under a heading; a censor's note against a name.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|signature]], endorsement;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995) ''(law)'' the prosecutor's endorsement of a charge.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(law)'' The specification of the charge in an indictment; the role of assistant prosecutor.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[subscrībō]]

+ * [[scrīptiō]]

+ * [[en|subscription]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}