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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la populus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pūblicē''' ^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions spell it ''poplicē'' and ''poblicē'', and Apuleius ''puplicē''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|pūblicus|-ē|t1=public, of the state]], the adverb of that adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|pūblicus]] was originally ⟨*poplico-⟩, as Old Latin ⟨poplicod⟩ and ⟨poblicai⟩ show, from [[m|la|populus|t=people]]; its ⟨ū⟩ comes from association with [[m|la|pūbēs|t=adult population]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''is pūblicē lēgātus Naupactum fuit'', “he went as an envoy of the state to Naupactus”.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Pūblicē'' is “as a concern of the state, officially, at public expense”, and “as a community, for the whole people” (Terence: ''haud cito malī quid ortum ex hōc sit pūblicē'', “no harm is likely to come of this to the public”).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Later it means “for the public, in the public interest”, and in the jurists “in a public place” and “in public, openly”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''pūblicē lēgātus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''ortum … pūblicē''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In the name of the state, [[m|en|officially]], at public expense.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # As a community, for the whole people.^(OLD 2012)

+ # For the public, in the public interest.^(OLD 2012)

+ # In a public place; in public, [[m|en|publicly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pūblicus]]

+ * [[populus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}