corporatio Latin · revision 4531

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Tertullian|origins=la corpus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔr.pɔˈraː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kor.poˈrat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corporātiō''' ''f'' (genitive corporātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|corporō|-tiō|t1=to make into a body]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) from [[corpus]] “body”.^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Tertullian, in On the Flesh of Christ, uses it of the taking on of a body.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Tertullian c. 160–220 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Tertullian it was the assumption of a body, the incarnation, and Martianus Capella uses it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD takes it as physical make-up or build, and Georges and Gaffiot as bodily nature.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Medieval writers used it of the incarnation of Christ.^(MLW)

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+ In 15th-century British Latin it meant the incorporation of a town and a corporate body, as in Norwich records of 1442.^(DMLBS) [[en|corporation]] is recorded in the mid-15th century, from this Anglo-Latin use, for persons united in a body.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it of the incarnation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1442 – Norwich records use it of a town's incorporation.^(DMLBS)

+ * mid-15th century – English ''corporation'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Physical make-up, bodily nature.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' The taking on of a body, [[m|en|incarnation]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Incorporation; a [[m|en|corporation]], corporate body.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[corpus]]

+ * [[en|corporation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}