interventus Latin · revision 9545

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪn.tɛrˈwɛn.tʊs], [ɪn.tɛrˈwɛn.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [in.terˈvɛn.tus], [in.terˈvɛn.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''interventus''' ''m'' (genitive interventūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[interveniō]] “to come between, intervene” with the action-noun suffix [[-tus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨veniō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*gʷm̥-yé-|t=to come]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

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

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a coming on the scene, arrival, as in Cicero; active intervention in a situation, as in Cicero; the occurrence of an event that affects a course of affairs, as in Plautus; and a coming in between, as in Seneca.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Niermeyer notes a classical legal sense, a bailment.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ In Medieval Latin it was intervention, intercession, help, and agency, means.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it mostly in the ablative, ''interventū'' “through the mediation of”.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

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

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of coming between.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Arrival, appearance.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|intervention|alt=Intervention]], interference; mediation.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)

+ # An occurrence that intervenes.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Intercession, help.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[interventiō]]

+ * [[interventor]]

+ * [[interveniō]]

+ * [[veniō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}