corruptela Latin · revision 9502

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔr.rʊpˈteː.ɫa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [kor.rupˈtɛː.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corruptēla''' ''f'' (genitive corruptēlae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''conruptēla'', and in early Latin ''corrumptēla''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[corrumpō]] “to corrupt” with the suffix [[-ēla]]; ⟨corrumpō⟩ is from [[con-]] and [[rumpō]] “to break”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨rumpō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*Hru-n-p-|t=to break]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

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

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a moral corrupting, perverting, seduction, bribery, as in Plautus and Cicero's ''corruptēla malae cōnsuētūdinis'' “the corrupting effect of bad habit”; and a source of corruption, a corrupting influence, as in Terence.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it was bribery, evil, seduction, corruption, a seducer.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for physical harm, decay, rot, infection.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of a corrupting influence.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|corruption|alt=Corruption]], seduction, [[m|en|bribery]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A corrupting influence.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Decay, rot, infection.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[incorruptēla]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[corrumpō]]

+ * [[corruptiō]]

+ * [[corruptor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}