correus Latin · revision 34132

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=before 223 AD, Ulpian|origins=la reus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔr.re.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔr.re.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''correus''' ''m'' (genitive correī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''conreus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|reus|t2=defendant]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan connects [[m|la|reus]] with [[m|la|rēs|t=thing; matter, case]] and suggests, with a question mark, [[itc-pro|*rei-wo-|t=of wealth]], whence “of a case”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD, the TLL and Georges cite it from Ulpian in the Digest (34.3.3.3), meaning a joint defendant, one accused together with another.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates Ulpian before 223 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short render it as a partner in guilt,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Stelten gives it in Ecclesiastical Latin as a fellow criminal.^(Stelten 1995) In British Medieval Latin it is a fellow defendant or accomplice: an Oxford formulary of 1304 counts as ''correī'' of a crime those who approve it, and Adam Usk's chronicle, under the year 1400, asks whether other nobles bound with someone, ''corei seu confidejussores'', must contribute.^(DMLBS) [[it|correo]] comes from it.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of a joint defendant.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1304 – An Oxford formulary uses it of accomplices in a crime.^(DMLBS)

+ * 1400 – Adam Usk's chronicle uses it of persons bound jointly.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A joint [[m|en|defendant]], one accused together with another.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A partner in [[m|en|guilt]], an [[m|en|accomplice]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[reus]]

+ * [[rēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}