coalitus
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Pronunciation
Forms
coalitus m (genitive coalitūs); fourth declension[1]
Etymology
It is from Latin coalēscō (“to grow together, unite”) + -tus, a fourth-declension noun of action.[1][2][3]
Earliest recorded meaning
Köbler's first author is Arnobius,[4] who speaks of the coalitus of the human race, its fellowship or communion.[5][3]
Semantic evolution
Ambrose uses it in the concrete sense of a growing together or concretion: seeds dissolving in the earth, the juice that becomes honey in the comb of wax.[2] In Hegesippus' Latin adaptation of Josephus it is the union of many men living by robbery, and Arnobius also has it for habit or custom.[2]
Etymonline traces English coalition to a Late Latin coalitus “fellowship” through French.[6]
Timeline
- 297–310 AD – Arnobius uses it for the fellowship of the human race.[5][4]
- c. 340–397 AD – Ambrose uses it of a growing together.[2][4]
Meanings
Noun
- (Late Latin) A growing together, concretion, union.[2][3]
- (Late Latin) Communion, fellowship.[5][1]
- (Late Latin) Habit, custom.[2]
Usage notes
Coalitus is also the perfect participle of coalēscō.[5][2]
References
- ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c d e f g Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
- ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
- ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com