collusor Latin · revision 36646

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=la lūdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔlˈluː.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kolˈluː.s̬or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''collūsor''' ''m'' (genitive collūsōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conlūsor''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|collūdō|-tor|t1=to play together]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) That verb is formed with [[m|la|con-]] from [[m|la|lūdō|t=to play]],^(OLD 2012) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*loid-e/o-|t=to play]] and [[ine-pro|*loid-|t=to let go frequently, play]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Lucilius,^(TLL) in the sense of a fellow gambler: ''Coelius, collūsor Gallōnī'', “Coelius, the gaming partner of Gallonius”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a companion in play, of children and of games of skill: Seneca uses it of the partner to whom a good player throws the ball differently according to his height,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Pliny the Younger of a dolphin that carried boys and played with them, and Juvenal of a puppy as a country child's playmate.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It was used especially of a fellow gambler at dice: Cicero speaks of land shared out ''comprānsōribus tuīs et collūsōribus'', “among your fellow diners and fellow gamblers”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) An inscription uses it of fellow participants in Salian song and dance.^(Georges 1913)

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+ In the jurists and in the Theodosian Code it took on the sense of one who acts in collusion with another to the harm of a third party.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Medieval writers used it of a playmate, of a fellow mocker, and of a partner at dice: a Lincoln statute of about 1425 complains of someone who plays at dice without stopping and loses twice to ''suum collūsōrem sīve illūsōrem'', “his fellow player or deceiver”.^(MLW)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of a gaming partner.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of fellow gamblers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of a partner at ball games.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it of a child's puppy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of people acting in collusion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 438 AD – The Theodosian Code uses it in the legal sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1425 – A Lincoln statute uses it of a partner at dice.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|playmate]], playfellow (also of animals).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A fellow [[m|en|gambler]], a partner at dice.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(law)'' One who acts in [[m|en|collusion]], an accomplice.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A fellow mocker.^(MLW)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}