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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la putō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''computātiō''' ''f'' (genitive computātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conputātiō'', and the manuscripts sometimes have ''compot-''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|computō|-tiō|t1=to calculate, reckon]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists [[m|la|computō]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|putō]], from Plautus on; he takes [[m|la|putus|t=pure, clean]] to be the base of the family, so that the verb first meant “to prune a tree”, whence “to reckon”, and traces it to [[itc-pro|*puto-|t=cut off, clean]] and [[ine-pro|*pHu-tó-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Varro, whom the TLL cites, explained the noun from the simple verb in the sense “to make clean”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it first in Varro's ''De lingua Latina''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL notes that after Varro it is frequent from Seneca the philosopher on and common in the jurists.^(TLL) Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It means calculation, reckoning, and also the form or result of a particular calculation: Seneca speaks of one computation gathering smaller and unequal sums, and Pliny the Elder uses it of distances worked out in Roman measure.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Seneca and Pliny also use it of the close reckoning of the avaricious, niggardliness.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medieval British sources it is a count or calculation, especially of the calendar: Bede has a computation contained in a cycle of 84 years.^(DMLBS) Niermeyer gives the medieval sense account.^(Niermeyer 1976) English took [[m|en|computation]] from it around 1400.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of calculation and of close reckoning.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of reckoning distances.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1400 – English borrows it as [[m|en|computation]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|calculation|alt=Calculation]], reckoning, [[m|en|computation]]; the result of a calculation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Close reckoning, [[m|en|niggardliness]], [[m|en|parsimony]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|account]]; reckoning of the calendar.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|computation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}