totiens Latin · revision 18048

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

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+ ==Forms==

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

+ It is also spelled ''totiēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|tot|-iēns|t1=so many]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|tot]] to [[itc-pro|*toti|t=so many]] and [[ine-pro|*to-ti]], cognate with [[sa|तति|tr=táti|t=so many]] and [[grc|τόσος|tr=tósos|t=so great]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has ''totiēns monēre mīrumst'', “it's strange to have to warn you so often”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Totiēns'' is “that number of times, as often”, usually answering ''quotiēns'' (Cato on a farm: ''quotiēns ībis, totiēns magis placēbit'', “the more often you go, the more it will please you”), and without a correlative “as many times” (Horace).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) It also means “so many times, so often” (Terence: ''an ego totiēns dē eādem rē audiam?'', “must I hear about the same thing so often?”).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''totiēns monēre mīrumst''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato: ''quotiēns ībis, totiēns magis placēbit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''an ego totiēns dē eādem rē audiam?''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # ''(with quotiēns)'' As often (as), as many times.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # So often, so many times.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tot]]

+ * [[quotiēns]]

+ * [[totidem]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}