facinus Latin · revision 17915

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dʰeh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfa.kɪ.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfaː.t͡ʃi.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''facinus''' ''n'' (genitive facinoris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The genitive is also ''facineris''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[faciō]] “to make, do”, with the ending of [[pignus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives ⟨faciō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*fak-i-]], from [[ine-pro|*dʰh₁-k-|t=to make]], an extension of [[m|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to put]].^(de Vaan 2008) Isidore says it is so called “from doing evil”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has ''hoc est servī facinus frūgī'', “this is the deed of an honest slave”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Facinus'' is first any deed or act, also an event, a “thing”;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus speaks of the brothers Atridae who did ''facinus maximum'', “a very great deed”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its commonest classical sense is “a misdeed, crime, outrage” (''in facinore manifēstō dēprehēnsus'', “caught in the act”).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary also gives “venture, undertaking”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “crime”, and in Medieval Latin it is “sin”.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976) Döderlein ranks ''[[dēlictum]]'' and ''[[peccātum]]'' as lighter offences.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''hoc est servī facinus frūgī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''sua quae narrat facinora'', “the deeds he tells of”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''in facinore manifēstō dēprehēnsus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|deed]], act, action; an event.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A venture, undertaking.^(Wiktionary)

+ # A misdeed, [[m|en|crime]], outrage.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|sin]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[facinorōsus]]

+ * [[facinerōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[faciō]]

+ * [[factum]]

+ * [[scelus]]

+ * [[flāgitium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}