intraneus

Forms

intrāneus (feminine intrānea, neuter intrāneum); first/second-declension adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin intrā (“within”), made with the suffix -āneus on the model of extrāneus “outside, foreign”.^[2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis and Short, Georges and Gaffiot cite it only from Cassiodorus' Historia ecclesiastica, where it describes private, internal assemblies as opposed to the church.^[3][4][5][6]

Semantic evolution

The TLL gives it the general sense “inner, interior”, also in the anonymous Opus imperfectum on Matthew, which speaks of inner stones that the outer ones hold together.^[2] In the Leges it appears in the Salic Law.^[6]

In medieval Latin it meant “internal, inner” in scientific writing (Albertus Magnus speaks of inner heat) and, as a neuter noun, an inner organ or inner sense.^[7] In British sources it also meant “native, domestic”, and as a noun “inhabitant, native”, in contrast to foreigners.^[8]

Timeline

• c. 485–c. 580 AD – Cassiodorus uses it of private assemblies.^[3][6]
• 1306 – A Swansea charter uses it for a native as opposed to a stranger.^[8]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Inner, internal; private.^[3][4][2]
2. (Medieval Latin) Immanent, inherent.^[7]
3. (Medieval Latin) Native, domestic; as a noun, a native or inhabitant.^[8]
4. (Medieval Latin) As a neuter noun, an inner organ or inner sense.^[7]

Related words

• intrā
• extraneus

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ a b Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
5. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
6. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
7. ^ a b c Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
8. ^ a b c Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press