praestituo Latin · revision 34394

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sth₂tu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯sˈtɪ.tu.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [presˈtiː.tu.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praestituō''' (present infinitive praestituere, perfect active praestituī, supine praestitūtum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prae-|statuō|t2=to set up, fix]].^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) De Vaan lists it among the compounds of [[m|la|statuō]], which he places with [[m|la|status|t=standing]] in the family of [[m|la|stō|t=to stand]]; the noun goes back to [[itc-pro|*statu-|t=setting up]] and [[ine-pro|*sth₂tu-|t=placement]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan first finds it in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) where in the ''Pseudolus'' a day has been fixed for some business (''eī reī diēs haec praestitūta est'').^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to fix in advance a day, a time or a limit: in Terence a day had been set for paying money, Cicero speaks of hours fixed at will and of nature lending life with no day fixed for its return, and Livy of soldiers enlisted with no fixed term of service.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Cicero also uses it with an indirect question, of a praetor who never laid down which action a plaintiff was to use.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) The TLL finds it in poetry only three times in Plautus' ''Pseudolus'' and once each in Terence and Terentianus Maurus; otherwise it is a prose word, used by Cicero (above all in the speeches), the law of Urso and Livy, and most of all in the language of the law.^(TLL) Ulpian uses it of putting people in charge of a work,^(OLD 2012) and later writers keep the sense of prescribing, as when Tertullian speaks of laying down a rule and Ammianus of a day fixed for payment.^(Georges 1913) Ecclesiastical Latin uses it for to [[m|en|prescribe]] or appoint beforehand.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a day fixed for some business.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of a day set for payment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of fixed hours and times.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–AD 17 – Livy uses it of a fixed term of military service.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of putting people in charge.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To fix in advance (a day, a time, a limit); to [[m|en|prescribe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To lay down (other conditions) beforehand.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(law)'' To put in charge (of a work).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}