laticlavius Latin · revision 10151

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Petronius|origins=la lātus, la clāvus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɫaː.tɪˈkɫaː.wi.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [la.tiˈklaː.vi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lāticlāvius''' (feminine lāticlāvia, neuter lāticlāvium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[lātus]] “broad” and [[clāvus]] “stripe” with [[m|la|-ius]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Petronius, of a napkin with a broad stripe.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Petronius before 66 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant bearing a broad purple stripe, the badge of senators and of the senatorial class, of tunics and, jokingly in Petronius, a napkin; of military tribunes, wearing the broad stripe as a sign of senatorial rank, and as a noun a man of senatorial family, as in Suetonius.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of a senatorial tribune.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Broad-striped (with the senatorial purple [[m|en|stripe]]).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of senatorial rank, ''(as noun)'' a man of senatorial family.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lātus]]

+ * [[clāvus]]

+ * [[lāticlāvus]]

+ * [[angusticlāvius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}