consensio Latin · revision 9510

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsēnsiō''' ''f'' (genitive cōnsēnsiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[cōnsentiō]] “to agree” with the suffix [[-tiō]]; ⟨cōnsentiō⟩ is from [[con-]] and [[sentiō]] “to feel, think”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces ⟨sentiō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*s(e)nt-ije/o-]], from [[ine-pro|*sent-|t=to notice]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was agreement in opinion or feeling, consent, unanimity, as in Cicero's ''omnium gentium cōnsēnsiō'' “the agreement of all nations” and Caesar's agreement of all Gaul to win back its freedom; of things, harmony of action; and in rhetoric agreement with an opponent's statement, as in Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short note it is most frequent in Cicero, and that in a bad sense it was a plot, a conspiracy, as in Cicero and Nepos.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for consent, agreement, as in the council of 673 reported by Bede, and for privity, complicity.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it in rhetoric.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 673 – a church council uses it of consent.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Agreement, [[m|en|consent]], unanimity.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Harmony.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A plot, [[m|en|conspiracy]]; complicity.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cōnsentiō]]

+ * [[cōnsēnsus]]

+ * [[sentiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}