exsecutio Latin · revision 35924

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Seneca the Elder|origins=ine-pro *sekʷ-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛks.sɛˈkuː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eks.seˈkut.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exsecūtiō''' ''f'' (genitive exsecūtiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ⟨execūtiō⟩,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the TLL finds ⟨exe-⟩ very often in the manuscripts.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|exsequor|-tiō|t1=to follow out, carry out]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan lists ⟨exsequī⟩ among the compounds of [[m|la|sequor|t=to follow]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*sekʷ-e/o-|t=to follow]] and [[ine-pro|*sekʷ-e/o-|t=to follow, accompany]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from the elder Seneca's ''Controversiae'' on,^(TLL) where every question is said to have had its proposition and its development, ''suam propositionem … suam exsecutionem''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its main sense is the carrying out or performance of something: Seneca speaks of the performance of duties, ''officiorum exsecutio'', Pliny the Elder of carrying out a work begun, and Frontinus of the enforcement of a law.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Tacitus uses it of the administration of a province, when Syria is entrusted to Gaius Cestius and the troops to Corbulo.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In the language of the jurists it was legal action taken to obtain satisfaction for a wrong, a prosecution: Ulpian has ''exsecutio'' of certain offences.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Ecclesiastical Latin kept the senses of performance, management and prosecution,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval Latin used it for judicial prosecution and for the office of the executor of a will.^(Niermeyer 1976) British medieval writers from Bede on use it for the performance of a task or the carrying out of a command.^(DMLBS) Through Anglo-French it gave English [[m|en|execution]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca writes of the performance of duties.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of the administration of Syria.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of legal action for a wrong.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st third of the 8th century AD – Bede uses it of the performance of good works.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English takes [[m|en|execution]] from Anglo-French and Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The carrying out, [[m|en|performance]] of something; the [[m|en|enforcement]] of a law.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # The administration of a province.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # The development or discussion of a subject.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(law)'' Legal action to obtain satisfaction for a wrong, [[m|en|prosecution]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The office of [[m|en|executor]] of a will.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[exsequor]]

+ * [[en|execution]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}