recitator Latin · revision 35994

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la cieō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛ.kɪˈtaː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [re.t͡ʃiˈtaː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recitātor''' ''m'' (genitive recitātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|recitō|-tor|t1=to read aloud]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) That verb is formed with [[m|la|re-]] from [[m|la|citō#2|t=to set in motion, summon]], which de Vaan lists among the derivatives of [[m|la|cieō|t=to move, stir up]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) in court: the author of a law, he argues in ''De inventione'', meant the judges to be interpreters of his intention, not mere readers of his text.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In legal use it was the person who read out documents, laws and testimony in a trial, and Cicero mentions three such readers being called in.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) From the Augustan period it also meant a reciter of literary works:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace pictures a harsh reciter who puts learned and unlearned alike to flight, and Seneca and Pliny the Younger use it of readings at literary gatherings.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Medieval British writers used it for one who recites, reads aloud or declaims.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of readers of documents in court.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of a reciter of poetry.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of literary recitations.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(law)'' A [[m|en|reader]] of documents in a court of law.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A [[m|en|reciter]] of literary works.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}