aemulatus

Forms

aemulātus m (genitive aemulātūs); fourth declension^[1]

Etymology

It is a fourth-declension action noun from Latin aemulor (“to rival, emulate”), with the suffix -tus.^[2][3][4] The verb is formed from aemulus (“rival”), which de Vaan explains as a diminutive of a noun “imitation” that goes back to Proto-Italic *aimo- and Proto-Indo-European *h₂ei-mo- (“imitation”).^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is a word of Tacitus:^[6][7] in the Annals Otho is sent to govern Lusitania so that he should not play the rival in Rome (aemulatus ageret).^[3][8]

Semantic evolution

L&S thinks it is perhaps only Tacitean, beside the usual Classical aemulātiō.^[6] Besides the Annals passage, it stands in the Histories, where Lipsius restored aemulatu, and Heinsius conjectured it in the Agricola, where other editors read similitudine.^[6][3] Georges gives it the sense of jealousy and envy,^[9] and Conte of rivalry and envy.^[8]

Timeline

• 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it in the Annals and, as Lipsius reads it, in the Histories.^[6][3][7]

Meanings

Noun

1. Rivalry, emulation.^[2][6]
2. Jealousy, envy.^[9][8]

Related words

• aemulatio
• aemulus

Usage notes

Aemulātus is also the perfect participle of aemulor.^[10]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ Bianchi, Rossella; Lelli, Olga (2014), VOLI: Vocabolario di latino, Florence: Le Monnier
5. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
6. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
7. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
8. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
9. ^ a b Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
10. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.