selectio Latin · revision 4645

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēlēctiō''' ''f'' (genitive sēlēctiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sēligō|-tiō|t1=to pick out]],^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) from [[m|la|sē-]] and [[lego|alt=legō]] “to gather, choose”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero, in On Ends, says that if no selection were made among the things that accord with nature, virtue would have nothing to do.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the act of picking out, a choice or selection, a word Lewis & Short call Ciceronian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it in philosophy for the Stoic choice among things according to nature, and in On the Laws.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Georges translates it as picking out or sorting.^(Georges 1913)

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+ [[en|selection]] is recorded in the 1620s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in On Ends and On the Laws.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1620s – English ''selection'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A picking out, choice, [[m|en|selection]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|selection]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}