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+ ==Forms==
+ '''commūnicātiō''' ''f'' (genitive commūnicātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|commūnicō|-tiō|t1=to share]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) ''Commūnicō'' is from [[communis|alt=commūnis]] “common”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Cicero, in the Pro Balbo, says that the ancestors never stopped granting and sharing citizenship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the sharing or imparting of something, as a community of interests or an exchange of talk in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short note it occurs several times in Cicero and rarely elsewhere.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Vitruvius uses it of the common ground shared by all the arts.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it was the figure in which the speaker seems to consult the audience or the opponent.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Christian Latin it meant fellowship, membership of the Christian community and participation in the sacraments, and in the liturgy the communion.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(MLW) Medieval Latin also used it of imparting ideas, as in Roger Bacon.^(DMLBS) English ''communication'' came from Old French and Latin in the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of sharing citizenship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of the common ground of the arts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * early 15th century – English ''communication'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Sharing, imparting.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # Common ground, connection.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(rhetoric)'' Consultation with the audience or opponent.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Fellowship, [[m|en|communion]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|communication]] of ideas.^(DMLBS)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[communico]]
+ * [[en|communication]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}