auctoramentum Latin · revision 34530

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero (81–43 BC)|origins=la augeō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [au̯k.toː.raːˈmɛn.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [au̯k.to.raˈmɛn.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''auctōrāmentum''' ''n'' (genitive auctōrāmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|auctōrō|-mentum|t1=to hire oneself out, bind oneself]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) That verb is from [[m|la|auctor|t=guarantor, seller]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan derives from [[m|la|augeō|t=to increase]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and Georges record it first in Cicero, who calls the very wages of hired labourers a pledge of servitude (''auctōrāmentum servitūtis'').^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It named the terms on which one hired oneself out, especially as a gladiator: Seneca quotes the gladiator's oath to be burnt, bound and killed by the sword as the words of a most shameful contract.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More often it meant the fee paid for such service, and so any wage or reward, even for a murder.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Seneca also says that riches are a pledge of servitude.^(Georges 1913)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant the consent of a family to the sale of landed property.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the wages of hired men.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 20 BC–30 AD – Velleius uses it for a fee paid for a killing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it for a gladiator's contract.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius mentions a fee of 100,000 sesterces.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The terms of hire, especially of [[m|en|gladiator|alt=gladiators]]; a [[m|en|contract]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A fee or [[m|en|wage]] paid for such service.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A [[m|en|reward]], recompense.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The consent of kinsfolk to the sale of landed property.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}