educatio Latin · revision 4074

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la ēducō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [eː.dʊˈkaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [e.duˈkat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēducātiō''' ''f'' (genitive ēducātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ēducō|-tiō|t1=to bring up]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is the Rhetorica ad Herennium, dated 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Cicero uses it of the upbringing of men.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant rearing, upbringing or nurture, of children in Cicero, Quintilian and Tacitus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Quintilian criticises a soft upbringing and refers to precepts on the education of children.^(Georges 1913) It was also used of the rearing of animals and the growing of plants, in Cicero and Pliny.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Medieval Latin kept the senses of upbringing and instruction, and used it of the hatching of eggs.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010) English ''education'' is recorded in the 1530s, first of child-rearing and the training of animals.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The Rhetorica ad Herennium uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of people and of animals.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of the education of children.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English ''education'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Rearing, [[m|en|upbringing]], nurture.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|education]], training.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The rearing of animals; the growing of plants.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[educo]]

+ * [[en|education]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}