emancipo Latin · revision 684

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [eːˈmaŋ.kɪ.poː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈman̠ʲ.t͡ʃi.po]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēmancipō''' (present infinitive ēmancipāre, perfect active ēmancipāvī, supine ēmancipātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|ex-|t=out of]] and [[mancipo|alt=mancipāre]] “to transfer by formal sale”,^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) and the TLL takes it as made from the participle [[m|la|ēmancipātus]] on the model of [[m|la|mancipātus]].^(TLL) ''Mancipāre'' comes from [[manceps]] “purchaser”, from [[manus]] “hand” and [[capio|alt=capere]] “to take”.^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary) The older spelling [[m|la|ēmancupō]] is found in Plautus, Livy and inscriptions.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first author is Plautus, in whom a lover says ''mulier, tibi me emancupo: tuus sum'' “woman, I [[m|en|hand myself over]] to you: I am yours”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Roman law it meant to release a son or other dependant from the father's power (''patria potestas''), done by a fictitious sale repeated three times, and also to transfer a child into another's power, as for adoption.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) It meant to make over property, such as half a farm to a son.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ Figuratively it meant to surrender or make subservient, as of a tribunate “sold and made over” in Cicero, or of a Roman soldier enslaved to a woman in Horace.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medieval Latin it meant to set free or release in general.^(MLW) English borrowed it in the 1620s as [[en|emancipate]], meaning “set free from control”.^(Etymonline)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of giving oneself up to a woman.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it for releasing a son into adoption and for a tribunate made over to others.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy reports a man fined for evading the law by emancipating his son.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace writes of a soldier enslaved to a woman.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1620s – English borrows it as [[en|emancipate]].^(Etymonline)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(law)'' To release (a son) from paternal power, [[m|en|emancipate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(law)'' To transfer (a child) into another's power.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To make over (property).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To surrender, make subservient; reflexively, to become the slave (of).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' To set free, release.^(MLW)

+

+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēmancipātiō]]

+ * [[emancipator]]

+ * [[mancipō]]

+ * [[mancipium]]

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[manus]]

+ * [[capiō]]

+ * [[en|emancipate]]

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}