una

Forms

ūnā (not comparable)^[1] An inscription spells it oina.^[2]

Etymology

It is formed from ūnus (“one”), with the ending of extrā and similar adverbs.^[2][3] ūnus goes back to Proto-Italic *oino- and Proto-Indo-European *Hoi-no- (“one”);^[4] Old Latin has ⟨oino⟩.^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler dates it from Plautus,^[3] who has mandāta erī periērunt ūnā et Sōsia, “my master's orders have perished, and Sosia with them”.^[2]

Semantic evolution

Ūnā is “in one company, together”, of two or more people or things, and “at the same time, in the same action”.^[2][1] Wiktionary adds “in the same place”.^[1]

Church Latin glosses it “together, at the same place”, and ūnā simul “at the same time”.^[5]

Timeline

• c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: periērunt ūnā et Sōsia.^[2][3]
• early 8th century – Bede uses it.^[3]

Meanings

Adverb

1. together, in company.^[2][1][5]
2. At the same time, simultaneously.^[2][1][5]
3. In the same place.^[1][5]

Related words

• ūnus
• simul

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h 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. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b c d Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson