dictatio Latin · revision 9793

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [dɪkˈtaː.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [dikˈtat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dictātiō''' ''f'' (genitive dictātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dictō|-tiō|t1=to dictate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) ⟨dictō⟩ is a frequentative of [[m|la|dīcō|t=to say]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*deik-e/o-|t=to say]], from [[ine-pro|*deyḱ-e/o-]].^(Etymonline)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short call it Late Latin, citing the jurist Paulus in the Digest.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler's earliest source is Augustine, whom he dates 354–430 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a dictating, dictation, and a dictated draft, as in the Digest, and Jerome and Cassiodorus use it of a commentary, a writing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Medieval Latin used it for dictating and for a text, writing.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''dictation'' (1650s, “authoritative utterance”; the sense of speaking for another to write down by 1727) is from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1650s – English ''dictation'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A dictating, [[m|en|dictation]]; a dictated draft.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A writing, commentary.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dictatiuncula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dictō]]

+ * [[dictāta]]

+ * [[en|dictation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}