decisione Italian · revision 38143

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1341–1342, Boccaccio's Ameto|origins=la caedō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /de.t͡ʃiˈzjo.ne/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''decisione''' ''f'' (plural decisioni)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|dēcīsiō|t=a settlement, decision]], from [[m|la|dēcīdō|t=to cut off; to settle]], a compound of [[m|la|dē-]] and [[m|la|caedō|t=to cut]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(OLD 2012) The Latin noun is in Cicero.^(LEI|19, 560) It is a learned word, as are [[fr|décision]] (from 1314), [[ca|decisió]] (from 1517), [[es|decisión]] (from 1565) and [[pt|decisão]] (17th century).^(LEI|19, 560)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ The Latin verb meant “to cut off” before it meant “to settle”, and the rare sense “cutting off, separation” also came into Italian.^(DELI 1999)^(LEI|19, 560) Zingarelli dates the word to 1342, the TLIO to Boccaccio's “Ameto” of 1341–1342, and GRADIT to before 1375.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(TLIO)^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLIO's first record is Boccaccio's ''Ameto'' (1341–1342), where the word means the act of choosing between two or more possibilities: “Pensata nuova maniera a decisione della presente quistione” (having thought of a new way to settle the present question).^(TLIO)^(GDLI) There the phrase ''a decisione di'' means “in order to decide”.^(TLIO)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The legal sense, the judgment that settles a dispute, is recorded in Perugia in 1342 and in Florence as ''dicisione'' in 1356–1357, and DELI has it in Andrea Torini before 1390.^(LEI|19, 560)^(DELI 1999) In the plural the word also named a collection of such judgments.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ The sense “resoluteness, firmness” is recorded around 1601 in Scipione Ammirato, and in Muratori in 1706.^(LEI|19, 560)^(DELI 1999) The old physical sense, “separation, a part cut off”, appears in Dante's ''Monarchia'', in Bernardo Segni before 1558, who called atoms ''piccole decisioni'', and in Giordano Bruno in 1584.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(LEI|19, 560)

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+ The 20th century added ''decisionale'' (from 1969), the sporting ''decisione arbitrale'' (the referee's ruling, from 1982), the statistical ''teoria delle decisioni'', and in philosophy Heidegger's term for man's projecting himself towards his own possibilities.^(LEI|19, 560)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1341–1342 – Boccaccio's ''Ameto'' has the first record.^(TLIO)

+ * 1342 – The legal sense is recorded at Perugia.^(LEI|19, 560)

+ * 1356–1357 – Florentine ''dicisione'' is recorded.^(LEI|19, 560)

+ * Before 1390 – Andrea Torini uses the legal sense.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1584 – Giordano Bruno uses the word for “separation”.^(LEI|19, 560)

+ * c. 1601 – Scipione Ammirato uses it for “resoluteness”.^(LEI|19, 560)

+ * 1969 – ''Decisionale'' is recorded.^(LEI|19, 560)

+ * 1982 – ''Decisione arbitrale'' is recorded in sport.^(LEI|19, 560)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|decision]]: the choice made between several possibilities; a resolution: ''Dopo una settimana di dubbi ha preso la sua decisione.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' A [[sentenza|alt=judgment]] that settles a dispute or a case.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # [[m|en|decisiveness]], firmness in acting: ''Il nuovo allenatore ha guidato la squadra con decisione.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(statistics)'' In ''teoria delle decisioni'', the study of how to choose among alternatives.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(philosophy)'' In Heidegger, man's projecting himself towards his own possibilities.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

+ # ''(archaic)'' Separation, division; a part divided from the whole.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[indecisione]]

+ * [[decisionale]]

+ * [[codecisione]]

+ * [[decisionismo]]

+ * [[decisionista]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[decidere]]

+ * [[deciso]]

+ * [[la|dēcīsiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}