cadus
Forms
cadus m (genitive cadī); second declension[1] The genitive plural is often cadum, as in Lucilius.[2][3] Inscriptions and glosses have a neuter cadum, plural cada.[2]
Etymology
It is borrowed from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos, “jar”).[4][1][2][5] Köbler compares a Hebrew word for a bucket.[5]
Earliest recorded meaning
Köbler dates it from Plautus.[5] In the OLD's earliest quotation Plautus puts Stichus in charge of the wine jar.[4]
Semantic evolution
It is a large jar for wine, mostly of earthenware, and Lucilius has a thousand jars of wine.[4][3][2] It is also a jar for other uses, for storing food or for dye, and a funerary urn: Virgil has bones gathered and covered in a bronze jar.[4] Wiktionary notes it as a liquid measure of three urns.[1] Niermeyer records the medieval sense cask.[6] Church Latin glosses it jug, large vessel, cask, barrel.[7]
Timeline
- c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a wine jar.[4][5]
- c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of a thousand jars of wine.[2][5]
- 70–19 BC – Virgil of a bronze funerary urn.[4][5]
Meanings
Noun
- A large jar for wine.[4][3][1][7]
- A jar for food or dye; a funerary urn.[4][3]
- A liquid measure of three urns.[1]
- (Medieval Latin) A cask.[6][7]
Word family
- cadialis
References
- ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ a b c d e f g h Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c d e f Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
- ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
- ^ a b c Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson