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lineamentum

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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [liː.ne.aːˈmɛn.tũː][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [li.ne.aˈmɛn.tum][1]

Forms

līneāmentum n (genitive līneāmentī); second declension[1] Also spelled līniāmentum.[2][3]

Etymology

It is from Latin līnea (“line”) + -mentum.[2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler's earliest source is Cicero.[4] Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.[4]

Semantic evolution

It meant a line drawn or traced, a stroke, as in geometry in Cicero and in Petronius; in art, in the plural, the outlines of a figure, often figuratively; and the features of the face, lineaments, as in Cicero.[2][3][5]

In Ecclesiastical Latin it means feature, delineation, lineament, and in the plural an outline.[6] Medieval Latin used it for a line of kinship, lineage.[7]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of lines and features.[2][4]
  • before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of a line drawn.[2][4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A line, stroke.[2][3]
  2. (plural) Outlines (of a figure).[2]
  3. (plural) Features, lineaments.[2][6]
  4. (Medieval Latin) Lineage.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  7. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill