primaevus Latin · revision 10113

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Catullus|origins=la prīmus, la aevum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [priːˈmae̯.wʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [priˈmɛː.vus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prīmaevus''' (feminine prīmaeva, neuter prīmaevum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[prīmus]] “first” and [[aevum]] “age” with [[m|la|-us]], and the TLL notes that poets formed compounds in ⟨-aevus⟩ on Greek models.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Catullus.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Catullus 81/79–52/50 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant in the first period of life, young, youthful, as of Helenor in Virgil, and Lewis & Short call it poetic and Late Latin.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means youthful.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for primitive, primeval, principal, and the neuter for youth.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it of the first age of life and of the world.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|young|alt=Young]], youthful.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|primeval|alt=Primeval]], primitive.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[prīmus]]

+ * [[aevum]]

+ * [[longaevus]]

+ * [[en|primeval]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}