systematicus

Forms

systēmaticus (feminine systēmatica, neuter systēmaticum); first/second-declension adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek συστηματικός (sustēmatikós, “systematic, forming a whole”),^[2][1] from σύστημα (sústēma, “a whole made of parts”), the source of systema.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

It first appears in the metrical writer Marius Victorinus,^[1][2] meaning “systematic”.^[1]

Semantic evolution

Georges cites it only from Marius Victorinus and Atilius Fortunatianus, both writers on metre.^[1] In Ecclesiastical Latin it means systematic, belonging to a coherent body of thought, methodical, with the adverb systēmaticē.^[3]

Timeline

• first half of the 4th century AD – Marius Victorinus uses it.^[1][2]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Systematic.^[1][2]
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Belonging to a coherent system of thought; methodical.^[3]

Related words

• systema

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
2. ^ a b c d e Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
3. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson