furax Latin · revision 10178

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfuː.raːks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfuː.raks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fūrāx''' (genitive fūrācis, superlative fūrācissimus, adverb fūrāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Comparative ''fūrācior'', superlative ''fūrācissimus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|fūr|-āx|t1=thief]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs ⟨fūr⟩ as Proto-Italic ⟨*fōr-⟩, [[ine-pro|*bʰōr|t=thief]], cognate with [[grc|φώρ|tr=phṓr|t=thief]], and doubts that it was borrowed from Greek.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant given to stealing, thievish, rare but classical, as in Cicero of a slave and of Piso's ''fūrācissimae manūs'' “most thievish hands”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for thievish, as of a dog that steals at night.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Given to stealing, [[m|en|thievish]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fūrācitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fūr]]

+ * [[fūror]]

+ * [[fūrtum]]

+ * [[fūrtīvus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Lewis & Short compare ''rapāx'' and ''fūrunculus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}