comparatio Latin · revision 8158

+ {{homograph|1|preparation}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔm.paˈraː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kom.paˈrat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''comparātiō''' ''f'' (genitive comparātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ This ''comparātiō'' is formed from [[comparō#1|alt=comparō]] “to prepare”, itself from [[con-]] and [[parō]], with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it of preparing a defence and, in the speech for Pompey's command, of the preparation of a new war.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Besides preparation it meant procuring or obtaining, as Cicero's ''comparātiō testium'' “getting up witnesses” and Livy's procuring of poison.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Vitruvius uses it of building and of the materials of a wall.^(OLD 2012) In Trajan's letters and the jurists it is the purchase of grain or land, and in Medieval Latin it chiefly meant acquisition by purchase.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of preparing for a new war.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius, of building.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of procuring poison.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian, of the purchase of land.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 800 – Carolingian charters, of property acquired by purchase.^(MLW)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|preparation|alt=Preparation]], making ready.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Procuring, obtaining, provision.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Building, construction, ''(plural)'' materials.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Late and Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|purchase|alt=Purchase]], acquisition.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(MLW)

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+ {{homograph|2|comparison}}

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+ * [[parō]]