expressio Latin · revision 7911

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Vitruvius|origins=la premō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''expressiō''' ''f'' (genitive expressiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[exprimō]] “to press out” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Vitruvius, of forcing out air and water.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Vitruvius c. 84–c. 25 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Vitruvius it meant forcing out, expulsion of air or water, the rising section of a water main, and in architecture a projecting moulding.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Palladius it meant pressing out honey, and in Augustine pressing, squeezing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant expression, a pressing out.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for emphatic utterance, emphasis.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in Italian ''espressione'' and French ''expression'', and Late Latin ''expressiō'' gave [[en|expression]] in the early 15th century, first “pressing out”, then “putting into words”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of forcing out water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it of pressing.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''expression'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Forcing out; a rising section of a water main.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(architecture)'' A projecting moulding.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Emphasis; [[m|en|expression]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[exprimō]]

+ * [[premō]]

+ * [[en|expression]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}