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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la prōferō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [proːˈɫaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [proˈlat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''prōlātiō''' ''f'' (genitive prōlātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|prōferō|-tiō|t1=to bring forward; to extend; to put off]], formed on the participle stem ⟨prōlāt-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The TLL finds it once in verse, in Plautus,^(TLL) where it means delay: in the ''Miles gloriosus'' a list of excuses (“he's not at home, he's gone for a walk”) gives as much putting off as one likes.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In prose it is found from Cicero, Caesar and Livy on.^(TLL) Its senses follow the verb: postponement, in Cicero, Caesar and Tacitus;^(Gaffiot 2016) the adducing of examples in support of a case, in Cicero's ''Orator'';^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) and the enlargement of boundaries, in Livy.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In later Latin it is the uttering of the voice, in Lactantius, and the pronouncing of a word, in Caelius Aurelianus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)
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+ In Ecclesiastical and medieval Latin it meant an utterance or pronouncement.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995) British sources also use it for the bringing forth of a child, as in Bede, of fruit, and of a written work.^(DMLBS)
+ 
+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for putting off.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of adducing examples and of postponement.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of extending boundaries.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 250–317 AD – Lactantius uses it of uttering the voice.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # The putting forward of examples in support of a case, [[m|en|adduce|alt=adducing]]; mention.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # [[m|en|enlargement|alt=Enlargement]], extension (of boundaries).^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # [[m|en|postponement|alt=Postponement]], delay.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Utterance; [[m|en|pronunciation]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The bringing forth (of a child, fruit or a written work).^(DMLBS)
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}