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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Historia Augusta|origins=grc προγράφω}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''programma''' ''n'' (genitive programmatis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|grc|πρόγραμμα|tr=prógramma|t=written public notice]],^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010) from [[m|grc|προγράφω|tr=prográphō|t=to write publicly]], from [[m|grc|πρό|tr=pró|t=forth]] and [[m|grc|γράφω|tr=gráphō|t=to write]].^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Vulcacius Gallicanus, in the Life of Avidius Cassius in the Historia Augusta, uses it of a proclamation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates the Historia Augusta to the 4th/5th century AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It was a written public notice, a proclamation or edict, a post-classical word found in the Historia Augusta, the Code of Justinian and inscriptions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler also records it in the Vulgate.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ In medieval Latin it was a notice or proclamation, as in a letter of Herbert of Bosham.^(DMLBS) In New Latin it came to mean a programme.^(Wiktionary) [[en|program]] is recorded in the 1630s as a public notice, and as a list of pieces at a concert by 1805.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 4th/5th century AD – The Historia Augusta uses it of a proclamation.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1630s – English ''program'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A public notice, [[m|en|proclamation]], [[m|en|edict]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(New Latin)'' A [[m|en|programme]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|program]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}