oratorius Latin · revision 8538

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la ōrō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [oː.raːˈtoː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [o.raˈtɔː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ōrātōrius''' (feminine ōrātōria, neuter ōrātōrium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ōrātor]] “speaker” with the suffix [[-ius]], from [[ōrō]] “to speak, plead”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', “oratorical”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant of oratory, oratorical, and in Cicero suitable for an orator, as ''ōrnāmenta ōrātōria''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The feminine ''ōrātōria'' (''ars'') was the art of oratory.^(Etymonline)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for rhetorical, forensic, and of prose.^(DMLBS) Italian ''oratorio'', named from the oratory of St Philip Neri where such pieces were performed, gave [[en|oratorio]] in 1727.^(Etymonline) ''Ars ōrātōria'' gave [[en|oratory]] “public speaking” in the 1580s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1580s – English ''oratory'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1727 – English ''oratorio'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of oratory, oratorical.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Suitable for an orator.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ōrātōria]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ōrātor]]

+ * [[ōrō]]

+ * [[ōrātiō]]

+ * [[en|oratory]]

+ * [[en|oratorio]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}