flexio Latin · revision 9523

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la flectō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfɫɛk.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈflɛk.si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flexiō''' ''f'' (genitive flexiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[flectō]] “to bend” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan reconstructs ⟨flectō⟩ as [[itc-pro|*flek-t-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC, and the OLD's first citations are from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a bending, swaying, curving, and concretely a winding path, as in Cicero; and an inflection, modulation of the voice, as in Cicero, and Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for bending, flexibility, and ''genuum flexiō'' was genuflexion.^(DMLBS) [[en|flexion]] (about 1600, “a bent part”, and in grammar “inflection”) is from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of bending and of the voice.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1600 – English ''flexion'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A bending, turning; a bend, winding path.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A modulation of the voice, [[m|en|inflection]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' ''genuum flexiō'' [[m|en|genuflexion]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[reflexiō]]

+ * [[inflexiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[flectō]]

+ * [[flexanimus]]

+ * [[flexibilis]]

+ * [[flexibilitās]]

+ * [[flexilis]]

+ * [[flexuōsē]]

+ * [[flexuōsus]]

+ * [[flexūra]]

+ * [[flexus]]

+ * [[en|flexion]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}