phrasis Latin · revision 9440

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Seneca the Elder|origins=grc φράζω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpʰra.sɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfraː.s̬is]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''phrasis''' ''f'' (genitive phrasis or phraseōs or phrasios); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Accusative ''phrasin''.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|φράσις|tr=phrásis|t=speech, manner of expression]], from [[m|grc|φράζω|tr=phrázō|t=to point out, tell]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short and Köbler cite Seneca the Elder, whom Köbler dates c. 55 BC–40 AD.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In rhetoric it was diction, style, expression, a post-Augustan Greek term for the Latin ''ēlocūtiō'', as in Seneca the Elder's judgement of Albucius and in Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it was a phrase, a sentence.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for an expression, a phrase, and for eloquence.^(DMLBS) Late Latin ''phrasis'' “diction” gave [[en|phrase]] in the 1520s, first “manner of expression”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 55 BC–40 AD – Seneca the Elder uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1520s – English ''phrase'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|diction|alt=Diction]], style of expression.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|phrase]]; eloquence.^(DMLBS)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēlocūtiō]]

+ * [[en|phrase]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}