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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Seneca|origins=la pōnō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [pɔˈsɪ.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [poˈs̬it.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''positiō''' ''f'' (genitive positiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from the supine stem ⟨posit-⟩ of [[pōnō]] “to put, place” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Seneca, of arrangement and position, and Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Seneca 4 BC–65 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a placing, of words in a sentence, the planting of crops, as in Columella, and the arrangement of parts, the lie of terrain, as in Seneca.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant the position or situation of a thing, and in prosody the position of a syllable, as in Quintilian.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it was the presentation of a theme, in rhythm the downbeat, Greek ''thésis'', and in grammar ''prīma positiō'' the basic form of a word.^(OLD 2012) In Seneca and Ulpian it meant an attitude or state.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant position, act of placing.^(Stelten 1995) [[en|position]] came in the late 14th century through Old French, first in logic of the laying down of a proposition.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of arrangement and position.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of planting.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it in prosody and grammar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''position'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A placing; planting.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Arrangement; the lie of land.^(OLD 2012)
+ # [[m|en|Position]], situation, ''(prosody)'' position of a syllable.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(rhetoric)'' Presentation of a theme.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(rhythm)'' The downbeat, [[m|en|thesis]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(grammar)'' The basic form of a word.^(OLD 2012)
+ # An attitude; a condition.^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[pōnō]]
+ * [[positus]]
+ * [[compositiō]]
+ * [[en|position]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}