Diet (assembly)
In
Etymology
The term (also in the nutritional sense) might be derived from
Through a false etymology, reflected in the spelling change replacing ae with e, the word "diet" came to be associated with Latin dies, "date". It came to be used in postclassical Europe in the sense of "an assembly" because of its use for the work of an assembly meeting on a daily basis or a given day of the time period, and hence for the assembly itself.[2] The association with dies is reflected in the German language's use of Tagung (meeting) and -tag (not only meaning "day", as in Montag—Monday—but also "parliament", "council", or other law-deliberating chamber, as in Bundestag or Reichstag).[3]
Historic uses
In this sense, it commonly refers to the Imperial Diet assemblies of the Holy Roman Empire:
- Diet of Augsburg
- Diet of Nuremberg
- Diet of Regensburg
- Diet of Speyer
- Diet of Worms
After the
The
The
The Riksdag of the Estates was the diet of the four estates of Sweden, from the 15th century until 1866. The Diet of Finland was the successor to the Riksdag of the Estates in the Grand Duchy of Finland, from 1809 to 1906.
The Swiss legislature was the Tagsatzung (French: Diète) before the Federal Assembly replaced it in the mid-19th century.
The
Current use
- The National Diet of Japan, the country's legislative body.
- Some universities in the UK and India refer to the period of formal examination and the conclusion of an academic term as an "examination diet".
- Scottish legal procedures include diets of proof, debate, appeal or meeting which may be ordered by a court.[5]
See also
- Federal Assembly
- Landtag
- The Estates (States)
- List of legislatures by country
- Thing (assembly)
- Reichstag (disambiguation)
- National Assembly
- House of Lords
References
- ^ Alafogiannis Georgios, "Anthroponymia sto H' biblio ton apodeixeon istorion tou Laonikou Chalkokondyle", postgraduate thesis, National University of Athens, School of Philosophy, 2020, p. 30, fn 87 In Greek.
- ^ Harper, Douglas. "diet". Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ "Tag", in: Wolfgang Pfeifer et al., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), digitalized by Wolfgang Pfeifer in Digitalen Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. Berlin-Brandenburg Science Academy. Retrieved from https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Tag on Sep 16, 2023.
- ^ "When is a Parliament not a Parliament? The Polish-Lithuanian Sejm and Parliamentary Culture". University of Oxford Centre for Intellectual History. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
- ^ UK Legislation, Act of Sederunt (Fees of Solicitors in the Sheriff Court) (Amendment and Further Provisions) 1993, SI 1993/3080, Schedule 1, paragraph 5(c), issued by the Lords of Council and Session, 3 December 1993, accessed 21 June 2021
External links
- New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
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- Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. .
- Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921. .