amnestia Latin · revision 9136

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Valerius Maximus|origins=grc ἀμνηστία}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [amˈneːs.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [amˈnɛs.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''amnēstia''' ''f'' (genitive amnēstiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἀμνηστία|tr=amnēstía|t=forgetfulness; amnesty]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Valerius Maximus (1st century AD), and Gaffiot cites him.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a general pardon, an amnesty, a forgiving of political offences.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it was Latinized as ''oblīviō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant amnesty.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin glossaries render it as forgetting, ''abolitio''.^(DMLBS) Through French ''amnistie'' it gave [[en|amnesty]] in the 1570s, “a ruling authority's pardon of past offences”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century AD – Valerius Maximus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ * 1570s – English ''amnesty'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|amnesty]], general pardon.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Forgetting.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[oblīviō]]

+ * [[en|amnesty]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}