planities Latin · revision 10120

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Sisenna|origins=ine-pro *pleh₂-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''plānitiēs''' ''f'' (genitive plānitiēī); fifth declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A rare first-declension ''plānitia'' occurs in Cicero and Caesar.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|plānus|-itiēs|t1=flat, level]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨plānus⟩ to [[itc-pro|*plāno-]], [[ine-pro|*pl(e)h₂-nó-|t=flattened]], cognate with [[lt|plónas|t=thin]] and [[hit|palḫi-|t=wide]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Sisenna, of level ground.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Sisenna 120–67 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant flatness, levelness, as of a plain in the ''Bellum Africum''; level ground, a plain, as in Sisenna and Caesar; and flatness in any plane, as of faces without noses in Pliny.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means plain, level surface.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for a flat surface, a plain, and the surface of the sea.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 120–67 BC – Sisenna uses it of level ground.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses ''plānitia''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny uses it of flat faces.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Flatness, levelness.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|plain]], level ground.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plānus]]

+ * [[plānum]]

+ * [[plānitia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}