lineamentum Latin · revision 10148

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la līnea}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [liː.ne.aːˈmɛn.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [li.ne.aˈmɛn.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''līneāmentum''' ''n'' (genitive līneāmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''līniāmentum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|līnea|-mentum|t1=line]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a line drawn or traced, a stroke, as in geometry in Cicero and in Petronius; in art, in the plural, the outlines of a figure, often figuratively; and the features of the face, lineaments, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means feature, delineation, lineament, and in the plural an outline.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a line of kinship, lineage.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of lines and features.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of a line drawn.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|line]], stroke.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(plural)'' [[m|en|outline|alt=Outlines]] (of a figure).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(plural)'' Features, [[m|en|lineament|alt=lineaments]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|lineage|alt=Lineage]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[līnea]]

+ * [[līneō]]

+ * [[en|lineament]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}