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pastinum

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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [ˈpas.tɪ.nũː][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpas.ti.num][1]

Forms

pastinum n (genitive pastinī); second declension[1]

Etymology

The origin of ⟨pastinum⟩ is unknown, and the OLD compares, perhaps, pāla “spade”, and Wiktionary Proto-Slavic *paxati (“to plough”).[2][3][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler's earliest source is Columella, and the OLD cites him.[4][2] Köbler dates Columella to the 1st century AD.[4]

Semantic evolution

It meant a two-pronged dibble for preparing the ground and setting plants, as in Columella; the trenching of ground, as in Palladius and Ulpian; and in Palladius trenched ground.[2][5][6]

Medieval Latin used it for ground trenched for vines, a vineyard.[7]

Timeline

  • 1st century AD – Columella uses it of a dibble.[2][4]
  • before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of trenching.[2][4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A dibble (two-pronged).[2][5]
  2. Trenching; trenched ground.[2][6]
  3. (Medieval Latin) A vineyard.[7]

Word family

  • pāla

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  6. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  7. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill