paedagogium Latin · revision 36435

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=4 BC–65 AD, Seneca|origins=grc παιδαγωγεῖον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pae̯.da.ɡoːˈɡiː.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pe.da.ɡoˈd͡ʒiː.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''paedagōgīum''' ''n'' (genitive paedagōgīī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|παιδαγωγεῖον|tr=paidagōgeîon|t=room where the pedagogues waited; schoolroom]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Saalfeld 1874) The Greek word is formed from [[m|grc|παιδαγωγός|tr=paidagōgós|t=slave who led boys to school]], from [[m|grc|παῖς|tr=paîs|t=child, boy]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it in inscriptions from the reign of Claudius, perhaps already of Tiberius, and in literature from Seneca, Pliny the Elder and Suetonius on.^(TLL) Köbler dates it from Seneca,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of the pages themselves, dressed in costly clothes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the school in which boys of slave birth were trained as pages in a noble or imperial household, and by extension the boys trained there.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Younger uses it of the building, and Suetonius uses it figuratively and euphemistically of seducing freeborn boys, in his life of Nero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Graffiti on the Palatine spell it ⟨ped-⟩.^(TLL) In British Latin of the 16th century it was a school for grammar, and a glossary gives it the sense of the office of teacher.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of richly dressed pages.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of the pages.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it figuratively.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1550 – A patent provides for a grammar school at Spilsby, called ''paedagogia''.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A training school for slave boys meant to serve as [[m|en|page|alt=pages]]; the pages' hall.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(collective, also plural)'' The boys trained there, the pages.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval and Renaissance Latin)'' A [[m|en|school]]; the office of a teacher.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[paedagōgiānus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[paedagōga]]

+ * [[paedagōgātus]]

+ * [[paedagōgō]]

+ * [[paedagōgus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}