complures Latin · revision 30665

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pleh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔmˈpɫuː.reːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [komˈpluː.res]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''complūrēs''' (neuter complūra or complūria, adverb complūriēns or complūriēs); third-declension one-termination determiner (non-i-stem) or third-declension two-termination determiner, plural only^(Wiktionary)

+ The neuter is ''complūra'' or ''complūria'' (Terence, Cato, Cicero), a choice Gellius discusses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|plūrēs|t2=more]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) [[m|la|plūrēs]] is the plural of [[m|la|plūs]], which de Vaan traces to the comparative ⟨*pleh₁-ios-⟩ of [[ine-pro|*pleh₁-|t=to fill; much]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Complūrēs'' means “a fair number, several, quite a few”, more than one but not many, and sometimes “very many”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) It is used as an adjective and, without a noun, for “several people” or “several things”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “several”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence has the neuter ''complūria''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius discusses ''complūra'' and ''complūria''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|several|alt=Several]], a fair number of, quite a few.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ===Pronoun===

+ # Several people, several things.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[complūriēns]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plūs]]

+ * [[plūrēs]]

+ * [[complūsculī]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}