indicium Latin · revision 8375

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la dicō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪnˈdɪ.ki.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [inˈdiː.t͡ʃi.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''indicium''' ''n'' (genitive indiciī or indicī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[index]] “informer, pointer”, from [[indicō]] “to point out”, with the suffix [[-ium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, in ''indicium facere'' “to give information”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant disclosure, information, as in Ovid, and in Plautus ''indicium facere'' to give away a secret, lay information.^(OLD 2012) In Cicero it meant a token, a memorial, and a sign that happens to show a fact, an indication, evidence.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant evidence, proof, sign, mark, disclosure.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for a sign, token, proof.^(DMLBS) It was borrowed into Italian ''indizio'' and Spanish ''indicio''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses ''indicium facere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a sign, evidence.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of disclosure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Disclosure, information.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''indicium facere'', to inform.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A token, [[m|en|symbol]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A sign, [[m|en|evidence]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[index]]

+ * [[indicābilis]]

+ * [[indicātiō]]

+ * [[indicātīvus]]

+ * [[indicātor]]

+ * [[indicātūra]]

+ * [[indicīna]]

+ * [[indicō]]

+ * [[indiculum]]

+ * [[doctrīna]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}