transitio Latin · revision 9142

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trānsitiō''' ''f'' (genitive trānsitiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[trānseō]] “to go across” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', which he dates 86/82 BC; it uses it of passing from one theme to another.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a going across, passage, as in Cicero, and in Livy crossing over to the enemy, desertion.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric it was the transition from one theme to another.^(OLD 2012) Vitruvius uses it of the sun's passage into another sign.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for crossing, passage, and with ''animae'' for the transmigration of the soul.^(DMLBS) It gave [[en|transition]] in the mid-15th century, first in grammar.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of passage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of desertion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-15th century – English ''transition'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A going across, passage.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Desertion (to the enemy).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' A [[m|en|transition]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abitiō]]

+ * [[ambitiō]]

+ * [[circumitiō]]

+ * [[cōitiō]]

+ * [[interitiō]]

+ * [[praeteritiō]]

+ * [[prōditiō]]

+ * [[rēditiō]]

+ * [[sēditiō]]

+ * [[trānseō]]

+ * [[trānsitus]]

+ * [[en|transition]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}