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trapezita

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Forms

trapezīta m (genitive trapezītae); first declension[1] Also tarpezīta, the form the OLD enters, and tarpessīta.[2][1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek τραπεζίτης (trapezítēs, “money-changer, banker”),[2][1][3] from τράπεζα (trápeza, “table”).[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Plautus has it first,[3] in the Captivi, Curculio, Epidicus and Trinummus.[1]

Semantic evolution

It is a money-changer or banker, a Greek word that Lewis & Short set beside the Latin argentārius.[1][2] In medieval Latin it can also be a minter of coins.[4]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of bankers.[1][3]
  • Medieval Latin – A minter.[4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A money-changer, banker.[2][1][4]
  2. (Medieval Latin) A minter.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  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 Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  4. ^ a b c d Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill