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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Quintilian|origins=la ad, la pōnō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ap.pɔˈsɪ.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ap.poˈs̬it.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''appositiō''' ''f'' (genitive appositiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ Also spelled ''adpositiō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[appōnō]] “to place beside, add” with the suffix [[-tiō]]; ⟨appōnō⟩ is from [[ad-]] and [[pōnō]] “to place”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD and Köbler cite Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Quintilian c. 35–95/96 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In Quintilian it was a comparison, and an adding, and Gellius also uses it of an addition.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Caelius Aurelianus it was the application of a cupping-glass, in the Vulgate a setting out of food, and in the Historia Augusta the imputation of a crime.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ Medieval Latin used it for the affixing of a seal to a charter.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it for laying on, application, the posting of a guard.^(DMLBS) [[en|apposition]] (mid-15th century) was first a grammatical term, a noun added to explain another.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of an addition.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 5th century AD – Caelius Aurelianus uses it of applying a remedy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-15th century – English ''apposition'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A comparison.^(OLD 2012)
+ # An addition.^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # ''(Late Latin)'' An [[m|en|application]]; a serving of food.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The affixing of a [[m|en|seal]].^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[appōnō]]
+ * [[pōnō]]
+ * [[en|apposition]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}