misericordia Latin · revision 9596

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la miser, la cor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [mɪ.sɛ.rɪˈkɔr.di.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [mi.s̬e.riˈkɔr.di.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''misericordia''' ''f'' (genitive misericordiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[misericors]] “tender-hearted” with the suffix [[-ia]]; ⟨misericors⟩ is from [[miser]] “wretched” and [[cor]] “heart”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan finds no accepted Proto-Indo-European source for ⟨miser⟩, and traces ⟨cor⟩ to [[ine-pro|*ḱḗr|t=heart]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

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

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was tender-heartedness, pity, compassion, mercy, which Cicero defines as distress at the misery of another who suffers wrongly, ''misericordiā capī'' was to be moved to pity; and in rhetoric an appeal to pity, pathos, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) The Thesaurus notes that, said of God, it means mercy without any distress of heart.^(TLL)

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+ In Christian and Medieval Latin it was God's mercy and its signs, and kindness, grace.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995) It survives in French ''miséricorde'' and Italian ''misericordia'', and English borrowed it as [[m|en|misericord]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero defines it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Pity, [[m|en|compassion]], [[m|en|mercy]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' An appeal to pity, [[m|en|pathos]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The mercy of God.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[miseria]]

+ * [[misericorditer]]

+ * [[misericors]]

+ * [[miser]]

+ * [[cor]]

+ * [[en|misericord]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}