interpellatio Latin · revision 35849

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la pellō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''interpellātiō''' ''f'' (genitive interpellātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|interpellō|-tiō|t1=to interrupt]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists the verbs in ⟨-pellō⟩ under [[m|la|pellō|t=to push, drive]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*pelna-|t=to approach]] and [[ine-pro|*pl-n(e)-h2-|t=to approach]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found first in Plautus' ''Trinummus'', where a character asks another what business he has interrupting and joining the conversation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it is an interruption of a speech or discussion:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) in Cicero's ''De oratore'' a speaker says that the course of another's speech must not be checked by interruption, and Livy has tribunes who let assemblies be held without interference.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) It was also used of any disturbance of an activity, as when Cicero thinks his correspondent could do the same at home, free of interruption.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Döderlein distinguishes it from ''interruptio'' and ''intercapedo'', which are interruptions of any business: ''interpellatio'' is only the interruption of a speech by someone speaking in between.^(Döderlein 1874) Quintilian uses it for a figure of speech.^(Georges 1913)

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+ The jurists used it for a summons or suit at law.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) In Ecclesiastical Latin it also meant intercession and formal questioning,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval Latin used it for intercession, an appeal at law, a request, a formal demand for payment, and a legal claim.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of interrupting a conversation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of interrupting a speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy speaks of assemblies held without interference.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it as the name of a figure of speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st half of the 3rd century AD – The jurist Paulus uses it of a suit at law.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|interruption]], especially of a speech; a disturbance of an activity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(law)'' A [[m|en|summons]] or suit at law.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|intercession]]; formal questioning.^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An appeal at law, a request; a formal demand for payment; a legal claim.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[interpellō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}