addictus Latin · revision 9853

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [adˈdɪk.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [adˈdik.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''addictus''' ''m'' (genitive addictī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the perfect participle of [[addīcō]] “to assign, award, hand over”, from [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|dīcō|t=to say]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨dīcō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*deik-e/o-|t=to say]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ As a noun, a debtor handed over to his creditor, it occurs in Plautus' ''Bacchides'', Varro, Livy and Gellius.^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it meant assigned, given over to something, devoted, a slave of, and bent on a disgraceful course, as in Horace.^(OLD 2012) As a noun, ''addictus'' or ''addicta'', it was a person enslaved for debt or theft, adjudged to a creditor, as in Plautus and Livy.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin a fourth-declension ''addictus'' meant an adjudication, assignment.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a debt slave.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of being devoted.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of debtors.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Assigned, devoted to; a slave of; bent on.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A person enslaved for [[m|en|debt]] or theft.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|adjudication]], assignment.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[addīcō]]

+ * [[dīcō]]

+ * [[en|addict]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}