velut Latin · revision 17938

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈwɛ.ɫʊt]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈvɛː.lut]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''velut''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ The longer form ''velutī'' is used especially before a vowel.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[vel]] “or, even” and [[ut]] “as”: “even as”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''velut ego hāc nocte … mīrum somniāvī somnium'', “for instance, last night I dreamt a strange dream”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Velut'' first introduces examples, “for instance”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It also compares, “just as, like”, often introducing similes in poetry (Lucilius: ''velut in fabricā fervēns cum marculus ferrum … tundit'', “as when a hammer beats the iron hot in the forge”), and excuses a strong phrase, “as it were”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With the subjunctive or ''sī'' it means “as if, as though”, and it also gives the ground for an action, “as being”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “as, like, even as, just as, as it were”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''velut ego hāc nocte … somniāvī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it to introduce a simile.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos: ''velut in suā manū esset fortūna'', “as though fortune were in his hands”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy: ''in rēgis velut ūnicī exemplī mōrēs'', “after the king's character, as being their sole model”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # For instance, for example.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Just as, [[m|en|like]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # As it were, so to speak.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(with subjunctive or sī)'' As if, as though.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # As being.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vel]]

+ * [[ut]]

+ * [[sīcut]]

+ * [[tamquam]]

+ * [[quasi]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}