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Words with history: leisure

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The oldest use of the term ōtĭum In Latin (from which Spanish leisure) This happened in military contexts. Ōtĭum He will appoint two winter months of the inaction of the war, compared to ten dedicated warfares, NEC ōTĭum (This is a mystery why a longer period was called the denial of the shortest, oddity expanding for other areas of leisure/business).

Although the most common feeling leisure Be “time for any action outside of obligations (work and homework)”, already in Latin there were two ways to understand leisure: the time dedicated to the rest, eat, play, play, and time dedicated to reading, writing, meditation. It would be leisure to do nothing and leisure to do what you want, unproductive leisure and productive leisure. That is, for example, Leisure had a negative and positive assessment.

These two grades help us understand that for now leisure Currently, it has a positive meaning in Spanish (since free time is considered the right), there are voices of the same family, for example, like idle And idlenesswhich are loaded with negative meaning. Word leisure He begins to appear in the work of the last quarter of the fourteenth century, one of which Palace rhyme (p. 1378-1406), Pedro Lopez de Ayala:

“Well, my life is about how the wind

Oh, if they don’t know, without any more

for comfort to me; This is the foundation:

Not Tienpo Espendo in Osio and Blandering. ”

Here is the meaning of the first meaning Dl (“Continuation of work, inaction or complete omission of activity”), a definition, the origin of which is in Dictionary of the authorities (1737). Nebridge included the term in Spanish lexicography leisure In it Spanish Latin Dictionary (1495) and also register IT authors of bilingual dictionaries of the XVI-XVIII centuries. The non -bridge himself used it three years earlier in his Grammar of the Spanish language (1492), which recommends precisely for relaxation:

“Because my thoughts and victories have always been strengthened the things of our nation, and gave Ombres of My Longe Works, in which they can best use their leisure time, which Agora spends it, reading novels or history stuck in a thousand lies and errors (…).”

They will also take the term in your Spanish Treasury (1611), Sebastian de Kovarrubias, who says that “leisure is not as used as idleness.” This point of Korrbia is interesting to indicate that although these two votes are considered synonymous from Nebridzhi, idleness And also IDLE/SAThey keep a negative character, as we have seen before, and from which Dictionary of the authorities (Recall, in addition, the name Francisco de Luca Fahardo, 1603, The right disappointment regarding idleness and games) This negative character, which is not internal for the voice leisure (Although we must note that a negative consideration of leisure is a majority in past centuries), already Authorities (t. v, 1737) reflected it in examples of the first meaning:

“He was a very feminine person and gave installations, among which he Velevo, he spent his life in Ezio and Luxury. (…) This is love, the passion for the locura born of the axio has grown with the will and cash. ”

Or when considering an insignificant thing that determined the second value:

“It is also perceived by a funny or quiet occupation, especially in inventive work: because they are regularly accepted by the rest of the big shoulders: and it is clear, the count of Releto, called Idles in their poetry.”

Also in the only phrase that is collected in the same article:

“Delive or give yourself OCIO. Refuse and give yourself life to Los -Angeles, using only vices, clumsiness and crimes. ”

Authorities also collected the verb OkurWhich, according to Rae Today, is in force in the second meaning (“Leave your job, give leisure”), although his work is barely known.

Finally, curious that leisure This is a cultivated voice, unusual in spoken language. BusinessCorominas tells us that this is an ancient body that is well rooted even in a popular language. However, these days, leisure And businessLinguistically they eliminated this difference.

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