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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [paˈrɔp.sɪs][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [paˈrɔp.sis][1]

Forms

paropsis f (genitive paropsidis); third declension[1] The OLD also records the spellings parapsis and parasis,[2] and Georges parabsis, which Prudentius uses.[3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek παροψίς (paropsís, “side dish”),[2][4][1] from παρά (pará, “beside”) and ὄψον (ópson, “cooked food, delicacies”).[1][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler finds it first in Petronius,[5] whose Satyricon mentions a dish thrown away.[6][3]

Semantic evolution

It named a dish for serving vegetables, fruit and other side dishes or desserts,[2][6] and then a small dish of any kind.[6] Martial, Juvenal and Suetonius use it,[6][3] and the jurist Ulpian has it.[3] The Vulgate has it in the Gospel of Matthew,[6] Stelten glosses it simply as a dish,[7] and Isidore of Seville still describes it.[6][3]

Timeline

  • before 66 AD – Petronius has it in the Satyricon.[5][6]
  • 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it.[6][3]
  • c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it.[6][8]
  • 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it in the Gospel of Matthew.[6][5]
  • c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville describes it.[6][3]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A dish for serving vegetables, fruit or dessert.[2][6]
  2. Any small dish.[6][1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  4. ^ Saalfeld, Günther Alexander (1874), Index Graecorum vocabulorum in linguam latinam translatorum, Berlin: Weidmann
  5. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  7. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  8. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.