vinetum

Forms

vīnētum n (genitive vīnētī); second declension^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin vīnum (“wine”) + -ētum.^[2][1] De Vaan traces vīnum to Proto-Italic *wīno- and an n-stem Proto-Indo-European *ueih1-(ō)n (“vine; wine”), perhaps from a root “to weave, wrap”, the vine being “the weaving one”.^[3] Cognate with Umbrian vinu, Hittite u̯ii̯an- (“wine”) and Ancient Greek οἶνος (oînos).^[3] Varro derived it from vītis (“vine”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler records it first in Cato;^[5] de Vaan's first attestation is Varro.^[3]

Semantic evolution

It means a plantation of vines, a vineyard, in Varro, Cicero, Virgil, Horace and the agricultural writers.^[2][6] Horace has the proverb vīnēta sua caedere, “to cut down one's own vines”, meaning to harm oneself.^[6]

Timeline

• 234–149 BC – Cato uses it.^[5]
• 116–27 BC – Varro derives it from vītis.^[4][6][5]
• 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^[6][5]
• 65–8 BC – Horace has vīnēta sua caedere.^[6][5]
• 1st century AD – Columella uses it.^[6][5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A vineyard, a plantation of vines.^[2][6]

Related words

• vīnum
• vīnea
• vītis

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
4. ^ a b Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina (text of The Latin Library; book and paragraph numbers as there)., p. 5.37
5. ^ a b c d e f Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press