evidentia Latin · revision 7902

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēvidentia''' ''f'' (genitive ēvidentiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ēvidēns]] “evident”, from [[ex-]] and [[videō]] “to see”, with the suffix [[-ia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Cicero uses it with ⟨perspicuitās⟩ to render [[grc|ἐνάργεια|tr=enárgeia|t=vividness]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Cicero, of obviousness.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Cicero it meant the quality of being evident to the mind, obviousness, and what is evident.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Quintilian it meant in rhetoric vividness, clearness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Apuleius it meant being manifest to the senses, visibility.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant evidence.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for proof, evidence.^(Niermeyer 1976) It was borrowed into French ''évidence'' and Italian ''evidenza'', and Old French gave [[en|evidence]] about 1300, from Late Latin ''ēvidentia'' “proof”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of vividness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of visibility.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''evidence'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Visibility.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Obviousness; what is evident.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' Vividness.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Proof, [[m|en|evidence]].^(Etymonline)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēvidēns]]

+ * [[videō]]

+ * [[en|evidence]]

+ * [[en|evident]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}