migratio Latin · revision 9115

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''migrātiō''' ''f'' (genitive migrātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[migrō]] “to move, change one's abode” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a change of abode, a move, as in Cicero; in the ''Tusculans'' Cicero uses it of death as a migration to another place.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short call it classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant death.^(Niermeyer 1976) Alcuin writes that the death of a good man is a migration to a better life.^(DMLBS) It gave [[en|migration]] in the 1610s, of persons, and in the 1640s of animals.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ * c. 800 AD – Alcuin uses it of death.^(DMLBS)

+ * 1610s – English ''migration'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A change of abode, [[m|en|migration]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Death, departure from life.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[migrō]]

+ * [[ēmigrō]]

+ * [[en|migration]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}