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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la capiō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɔk.kʊˈpaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ok.kuˈpat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''occupātiō''' ''f'' (genitive occupātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[occupō]] “to seize, occupy” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of business, and Cicero, of seizing possession.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates the ''Rhetorica'' 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant taking possession, seizing, occupying, as Cicero's ''occupātiō forī'', which Lewis and Short call very rare in this sense.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Cicero it meant close attention to a subject, and in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' business, employment, an occupation.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric ''ante occupātiō'' meant forestalling an objection.^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant occupation.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for the seizure of land or goods and for usurpation.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''occupazione'' and French ''occupation'', and Old French gave [[en|occupation]] in the early 14th century, “fact of holding”, and by the mid-14th century “employment”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of business.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of seizing possession.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * early 14th century – English ''occupation'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Seizing, [[m|en|occupation]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # Close attention; business, employment.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(rhetoric)'' ''ante occupātiō'', forestalling an objection.^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[anteoccupātiō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[occupō]]
+ * [[en|occupation]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}