institor Latin · revision 8386

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Horace|origins=la īnsistō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnstitor''' ''m'' (genitive īnstitōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[īnsistō]] “to stand on, apply oneself to” with the agent suffix [[-tor]], and Georges and Gaffiot derive it from [[īnstō]] “to stand at”, as one set over a stall.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Horace, whom he dates 65–8 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Gaffiot cites Horace's ''Epodes'' and Livy's ''īnstitor mercis'' “seller of goods”.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a small retailer, shopkeeper or pedlar, one who sold goods for another as an agent, a factor or huckster.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In Seneca it was someone who displays a thing as if for sale, and Quintilian calls a showy speaker an ''īnstitor ēloquentiae'' “a hawker of eloquence”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for a merchant, an agent, and in ''artis īnstitor'' for a craftsman.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy has ''īnstitor mercis''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it figuratively.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|shopkeeper]], [[m|en|pedlar]]; a sales agent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # One who displays a thing as if for sale.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A merchant; an agent; a craftsman.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[institōrius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[īnstō]]

+ * [[īnsistō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}