renuntiatio Latin · revision 34265

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''renūntiātiō''' ''f'' (genitive renūntiātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|renūntiō|-tiō|t1=to report, announce; to renounce]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|nūntiō|t=to announce]], from [[m|la|nūntius|t=messenger]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan thinks the noun probably goes back to ⟨*nountio-⟩ but calls its further etymology unclear: some derive it from a root [[ine-pro|*newH-|t=to cry]], others from [[m|la|novus|t=new]], a reconstruction he finds morphologically senseless.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the Verrine speeches uses it of an official report entered in the public records: ''cognoscite renuntiationem ex litteris publicis''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it a technical term of public life and law.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero also uses it of the official return of an election, the declaring of the candidates elected, and speaks of the ''renuntiatio suffragiorum'';^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Younger uses it in the same way.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The jurists use it of a formal declaration of withdrawal: Gaius of breaking off a betrothal, Ulpian and Paul of leaving a partnership.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Cassian it is the renunciation of the world by monks, and so the monastic life itself.^(TLL) In Ecclesiastical Latin it is renunciation or resignation, and in a church trial the petitioner's declaration ending the process before sentence.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval writers in Britain use it of the reporting of sins in confession, of giving up a claim, right or office, and of renouncing the world.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of official reports and election returns.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius uses it of breaking off a betrothal.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of withdrawing from a partnership.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 360–c. 435 AD – Cassian uses it of the monk's renunciation of the world.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An official [[m|en|report]], announcement.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # The official [[m|en|return]] of an election, the declaring of those elected.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(law)'' A declaration of withdrawal; [[m|en|notice]] given.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|renunciation|alt=Renunciation]] of the world, the monastic life; resignation.^(TLL)^(Stelten 1995)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[renūntiō]]

+ * [[nūntius]]

+ * [[abrenūntiātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}