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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la pōnō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔm.pɔˈsɪ.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kom.poˈs̬it.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''compositiō''' ''f'' (genitive compositiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[compōnō]] “to put together” with the suffix [[-tiō]], and is also spelled ⟨conpositiō⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary takes it in some senses as a calque of [[grc|σύνθεσις|tr=súnthesis]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The TLL says it is read from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Cicero onwards.^(TLL) Köbler dates the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a putting together, as in Vitruvius, of words a combination, and in Cicero the matching of gladiators.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant a storing, a mixture of ingredients, the composition of a medicine or of perfumes, as Cicero's ''unguentōrum compositiō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant arrangement, order, a musical pattern, and in rhetoric the artistic arrangement of words in prose.^(OLD 2012) It also meant a settlement of differences, an agreement, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)
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+ Medieval Latin used it of a pattern, a literary composition, adornment, and an amicable settlement.^(Niermeyer 1976) [[en|composition]] came in the late 14th century through Old French ''composicion''.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of the arrangement of words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of matching and of settlement.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of fitting together.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''composition'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A putting together; a combination of words.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A matching, pairing.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A storing.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A mixture; the [[m|en|composition]] of a medicine.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Arrangement, order, structure.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(rhetoric)'' The artistic arrangement of words.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A settlement, agreement.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[compōnō]]
+ * [[positiō]]
+ * [[en|composition]]
+ * [[en|compose]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}