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denuo

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈdeː.nu.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.nu.o][1]

Forms

dēnuō (not comparable)[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin dē (“from”) + novus (“new”), from the phrase ⟨*dē novōd⟩, which does not itself occur.[2][1][3] De Vaan traces novus to Proto-Italic *nowo- and Proto-Indo-European *neuo- (“new, young”), comparing Sanskrit नव (náva-, “new, young”) and Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new, young”).[2] Wiktionary compares French de nouveau (“again”).[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,[2][4] in whose Amphitruo someone fears his face will be remodelled anew.[5]

Semantic evolution

It means from a fresh beginning, anew, and a second time, again: in the Rudens a man says that if he was not understood he will say it again.[5] It is also used of restoring things as they were, “I will put on my cloak again”, and of a new stage in a process, “then again”.[5] Lewis & Short find it most often in Plautus and Terence, rarely elsewhere, and not in Caesar or the Augustan poets.[3] Döderlein distinguishes it, “anew”, from iterum “a second time”, rursus “again” and ⟨dē integrō⟩ “quite afresh”.[6] Church Latin glosses it again, a second time, anew.[7]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, anew and again.[5][2][4]
  • 190–159 BC – Terence.[3][4]

Meanings

Adverb

  1. From a fresh beginning, anew, afresh.[5][3][1][7]
  2. A second time, once more, again.[5][1][7]
  3. Again, back as things were; in turn, then again.[5][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  3. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  6. ^ Döderlein, Ludwig (1874), Döderlein’s Hand-book of Latin Synonymes, tr. H. H. Arnold, Andover: W. F. Draper
  7. ^ a b c Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson