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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *gʷem-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪnˈwɛn.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [iɱˈvɛn.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''inventiō''' ''f'' (genitive inventiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|inveniō|-tiō|t1=to find, discover]], from [[m|la|in-]] and [[m|la|veniō|t=to come]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨veniō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*gʷn̥-je/o-|t=to come]], from [[ine-pro|*gʷm̥-ye/o-|t=to come]], and notes that nouns in ⟨-ventiō⟩ may be inherited or recent formations.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's earliest source is the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates it 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the action of finding, discovery; the faculty or act of devising, invention,; and a thing devised, a plan, stratagem, all in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means finding, discovery, and ''inventiō crucis'' was the feast of the Finding of the Cross.^(Stelten 1995)^(Köbler 2010) Medieval Latin used it for the right to strayed property and flotsam, and for a judicial sentence.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''invention'' (early 15th century, “finding”) is from it.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of discovery and invention.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * early 15th century – English ''invention'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # The action of finding, [[m|en|discovery]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # [[m|en|invention|alt=Invention]], the devising of something, ''(rhetoric)'' the finding of arguments.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # A thing devised; a plan, [[m|en|stratagem]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The right to strayed property; a [[m|en|sentence]].^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[inuentiuncula]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[inveniō]]
+ * [[inventor]]
+ * [[inventum]]
+ * [[veniō]]
+ * [[en|invention]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}