condiscipulus Latin · revision 36835

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔn.dɪsˈkɪ.pʊ.ɫʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kon.diʃˈʃiː.pu.lus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''condiscipulus''' ''m'' (genitive condiscipulī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|discipulus|t1=with, together|t2=pupil]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The origin of [[m|la|discipulus]] is uncertain: Walde and Hofmann derived it from a verb compounded of [[m|la|dis-]] and [[m|la|capiō|t=to take]], meaning “to grasp mentally”, which de Vaan does not find compelling.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest instance is in an Atellan farce of Pomponius.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Cicero, its first dated author,^(Köbler 2010) has it in the ''Pro Sulla'' of someone who had been his schoolfellow in boyhood.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it meant a fellow pupil or schoolfellow, in Cicero, Nepos, Seneca, Quintilian, Suetonius and Pliny the Younger.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Ecclesiastical Latin used it for a fellow disciple.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ Medieval writers used it for a fellow pupil of a school or master, for a fellow novice trained in a monastic rule, for a fellow disciple of Christ or of a teacher, and for a fellow believer.^(MLW) Aldhelm calls Gregory a fellow student of Basil in philosophy,^(MLW) and the spelling ''cun-'' occurs in Agnellus.^(MLW) It survives in [[it|condiscepolo]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a schoolfellow.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos uses it in his life of Atticus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of pupils taught together.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 639–709 AD – Aldhelm uses it of a fellow student in philosophy.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 3rd quarter of the 8th century – Arbeo uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A fellow [[m|en|pupil]], [[m|en|schoolfellow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A fellow [[m|en|disciple]].^(Stelten 1995)^(MLW)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A fellow [[m|en|novice]] in a monastery.^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[condiscipula]]

+ * [[condiscipulātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[discipulus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}