vinetum
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Pronunciation
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
Related words
References
- ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina (text of The Latin Library; book and paragraph numbers as there)., p. 5.37
- ^ a b c d e f Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
- ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press