partio Latin · revision 5079

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la pars}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''partiō''' (present infinitive partīre, perfect active partīvī or partiī, supine partītum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pars|-iō|t1=part, piece]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Schrijver, as reported by de Vaan, explains ''pars'' as a pre-Latin formation from the present stem of [[pariō]] “to bring forth”, originally “lot, portion”.^(de Vaan 2008) The verb is also deponent, [[partior]], which Cicero, Caesar and Quintilian use almost exclusively.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Gaffiot cites Plautus first for sharing out.^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to share out, distribute, divide among people, and to divide into parts.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius says the sun divides the heavens into unequal parts.^(OLD 2012) In late legal Latin it also meant to take as one's share.^(OLD 2012)

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+ The TLL notes that in Romance it developed the sense “to depart”, as in [[it|partire]], [[fr|partir]] and [[es|partir]].^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sharing.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the sun dividing the heavens.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of taking a share.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To share, [[m|en|distribute]], apportion.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To divide into parts.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(law)'' To take as a share.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pars]]

+ * [[partior]]

+ * [[portiō]]

+ * [[en|part]]

+ * [[en|partition]]

+ * [[en|depart]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A different noun [[la|partiō|alt=partiō, partiōnis]], from [[pariō]], meant giving birth, and of hens laying eggs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}