misericors Latin · revision 8334

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la miser, la cor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [mɪˈsɛ.rɪ.kɔrs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [miˈs̬ɛː.ri.kors]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''misericors''' (genitive misericordis, comparative misericordior); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[miser]] “wretched” and [[cor]] “heart”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of the tender-hearted.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant tender-hearted, merciful, compassionate, as in Plautus, and of pleas meant to move pity, pitiful.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant merciful, kind, especially of God.^(Stelten 1995)^(DMLBS) Gildas wished rather to fall into the hands of the merciful God than of men.^(DMLBS) It was borrowed into Italian and Spanish ''misericorde'', and Middle High German ''misencorde'' was a long knife worn beside the sword.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of the merciful.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Merciful, [[m|en|compassionate]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Pitiful.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[immisericors]]

+ * [[misericordia]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[miser]]

+ * [[cor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}