conclusio Latin · revision 7341

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la claudō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔŋˈkɫuː.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [koŋˈkluː.s̬i.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''conclūsiō''' ''f'' (genitive conclūsiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[conclūdō]] “to shut up, conclude” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL says it is a prose word found from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', and the OLD's earliest citations are from it.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In military use it meant a state of siege, a blockade, as in Caesar and Nepos.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Vitruvius it meant an enclosing and a fastening.^(OLD 2012) It meant finishing, completion, as in Cicero, and in rhetoric the conclusion of a speech, the peroration, and the rounded arrangement of a sentence, a period.^(OLD 2012) In logic it meant the deducing of a proof, a syllogism, and in Quintilian its conclusion.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant ending, termination, closing, conclusion.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin also used it in medicine of the closing of the eyes.^(DMLBS) [[en|conclusion]] came in the late 14th century through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of the peroration and of a syllogism.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of a blockade.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a period.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''conclusion'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(military)'' A blockade.^(OLD 2012)

+ # An enclosing; a fastening.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Completion, ''(rhetoric)'' the peroration.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A period.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(logic)'' A syllogism; a [[m|en|conclusion]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[conclūsiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[conclūdō]]

+ * [[claudō]]

+ * [[en|conclusion]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}