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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la ferō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [trãːsˈɫaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [tranzˈlat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''trānslātiō''' ''f'' (genitive trānslātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from ⟨trānslāt-⟩, the supine stem of [[trānsferō]] “to carry over”, with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It is also spelled ⟨trālātiō⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', which he dates 86/82 BC; the OLD cites it for shifting a case to another court and for figurative use of a word.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant moving a thing from one place to another, as Suetonius' change of residence, and in Columella and Pliny the Elder transplanting or grafting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Cicero it meant the transfer of possessions or rights from one person to another.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it meant shifting a case to another jurisdiction or a charge to another person, and the transferred, figurative use of a word, a metaphor; in Quintilian it meant translation from one language into another.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Isidore defines it as a pleading that turns on whether the right person brings the case before the right court.^(Isidore)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a transfer, removal, a version or translation.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for the translation of a saint's body and the feast of that translation.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) [[en|translation]] came in the mid-14th century, of relics as well as of texts.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it in rhetoric.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a transfer of property.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of translation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-14th century – English ''translation'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Moving from one place to another; [[m|en|transplanting]], grafting.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Transfer of property or rights.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(rhetoric)'' The shifting of a case or charge.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Figurative use of a word, [[m|en|metaphor]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # [[m|en|Translation]] into another language.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The translation of a saint's relics; its feast.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[trānsferō]]
+ * [[en|translation]]
+ * [[en|translate]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}