locatio Latin · revision 4185

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''locātiō''' ''f'' (genitive locātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|locō|-tiō|t1=to place; to let out]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) ''Locō'' is from [[locus]] “place”.^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it only in prose, from Cicero and the laws of his time, Varro and Livy on.^(TLL) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the hiring out or letting of property, as in inscriptions, in Cicero's letters, and in the letting of the Macedonian mines.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) By metonymy it was the lease or contract itself, which could be cancelled.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Isidore of Seville defines it as a thing given for use at a fixed price.^(Isidore) Quintilian uses it of the arrangement of words, whose faulty order causes ambiguity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In medieval Latin it meant a placing, place or position, the grant of lands, and in British sources the placing of sheep at a manorial court.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010) English ''location'' is recorded in the 1590s for a position or place.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of letting contracts.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of the arrangement of words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville defines it in law.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – English ''location'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Arrangement, disposition.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The letting or hiring out of property; a [[m|en|lease]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A placing, position, [[m|en|location]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[delocatio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[loco]]

+ * [[en|location]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}