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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la vertō}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''conversiō''' ''f'' (genitive conversiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[convertō]] “to turn round” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The TLL says it is found from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' onwards, and the OLD's earliest citation for a rhetorical figure is from it.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a turning round, rotation, revolution, as Cicero's ''conversiōnēs astrōrum'' “the revolutions of the stars”, and a partial turn.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant turning upside down, inversion, in medicine a prolapse, a change, a political upheaval, as in Cicero, and in Quintilian a paraphrase.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it named several figures: the repetition of a word at the end of clauses, antistrophe, the transposition of words, as “one must eat to live, not live to eat”, the turning of an opponent's argument, and a period.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a moral change, conversion.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it of conversion and of taking monastic vows.^(Niermeyer 1976) [[en|conversion]] came in the mid-14th century through Old French, first of religious conversion.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of a figure of speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the revolutions of the stars.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of paraphrase.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-14th century – English ''conversion'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A turning round, rotation, [[m|en|revolution]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # An inversion; a prolapse.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A change; an upheaval; a paraphrase.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(rhetoric)'' [[m|en|Antistrophe]]; transposition; a period.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' [[m|en|Conversion]], ''(Medieval Latin)'' taking monastic vows.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[convertō]]
+ * [[vertō]]
+ * [[en|conversion]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}