uniter

Forms

ūniter (adverb)^[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin ūnus (“one”) + -ter.^[1][3] De Vaan traces the numeral to Proto-Italic *oino- and Proto-Indo-European *Hoi-no- (“one”).^[4] Cognate with Ancient Greek οἰνή (oinḗ, “one (at dice)”) and Old Irish óen (“one”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler dates it from Lucretius,^[3] who writes of the parting of body and soul, “from which we are joined together as one” (quibus e sumus uniter apti).^[5][6]

Semantic evolution

Lewis & Short call it a Lucretian word.^[5] A scholiast on Juvenal still uses it,^[5][2] and Georges records the superlative ūnissimē, “as closely as possible”, in a letter of Severus among Augustine's letters.^[2]

Timeline

• 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of body and soul joined as one.^[5][6][3]

Meanings

Adverb

1. So as to form one whole, together, conjointly.^[1][5]

Related words

• ūnus
• ūniō

References

1. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
3. ^ a b c 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 e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier