consummatio Latin · revision 36466

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=14–37 AD, Celsus|origins=la summa}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kõː.sʊmˈmaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kon.sumˈmat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsummātiō''' ''f'' (genitive cōnsummātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cōnsummō|-tiō|t1=to sum up, complete]], a noun of action.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The verb is formed from [[m|la|com-]] and [[m|la|summa|t=sum, total]], from [[m|la|summus|t=highest]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is in Celsus, who says that it is not fruit itself but the accumulation of it all that does harm: ''nōn haec sed cōnsummātiō omnium nocet''.^(OLD 2012) The TLL finds it from Velleius Paterculus on.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In classical prose it is the adding together of things and its result, the total or sum, and also a summing up:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella reckons up the days of work, Pliny the Elder the circuit of Europe, and Seneca the Elder calls a passage a summing up of a whole life and a sort of funeral eulogy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also meant the achieving of something, its completion, and its highest point or perfection.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that it is mostly found in Church writers and is absent from the poets.^(TLL)

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+ In Church Latin it is the consummation or perfecting of something and the end of the world,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin also the end of life, death.^(Niermeyer 1976) English took [[m|en|consummation]] in the late 14th century for perfection, and about 1400 for completion.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of the accumulation of foods.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it for a reckoning of days of work.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it for the achieving of great things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it for the total circuit of Europe.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English borrows it as [[m|en|consummation]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The adding together of things, [[m|en|accumulation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # The result of adding, a total, sum; a summing up, [[m|en|summary]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # The achieving or [[m|en|accomplishment]] of something.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The final result, conclusion, [[m|en|completion]].^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # The highest achievement, [[m|en|perfection]].^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The end of the world.^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The end; [[m|en|death]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inconsummatio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|consummation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}