corruptor Latin · revision 9501

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *Hrewp-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔrˈrʊp.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [korˈrup.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corruptor''' ''m'' (genitive corruptōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''conruptor'', and Plautus has ''corrumptor''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[corrumpō]] “to corrupt” with the agent suffix [[-tor]]; ⟨corrumpō⟩ is from [[con-]] and [[rumpō]] “to break”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, of a perverter.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was one who corrupts morally, a perverter, seducer, briber, as in Plautus, Cicero and Horace; and in Pliny the Elder a spreader of infection, one who spoils.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for a corrupter of a text, a destroyer, and a moral corrupter, seducer.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of infection.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|corrupter]], seducer, briber.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # One who spoils; a spreader of infection.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A corrupter of a text.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[corrumpō]]

+ * [[corruptēla]]

+ * [[corruptiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}