eximius Latin · revision 30820

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la ex-, ine-pro *h₁em-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈsɪ.mi.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eɡˈziː.mi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''eximius''' (feminine eximia, neuter eximium, adverb eximiē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|eximō|t=to take out, remove]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ius]]: “taken out (of the mass)”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ⟨eximō⟩ is [[m|la|ex-]] with [[m|la|emō|t=to take, buy]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*eme/o-|t=to take]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁em-e/o-|t=to take]], cognate with [[xum|emantur|t=they may be taken]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Mercator'': ''amāre occēpī fōrmā eximiā mulierem'', “I fell in love with a woman of outstanding beauty”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense, “excepted, left out of reckoning”, is rare: Terence has ''utine eximium nēminem habeam?'', “am I to make an exception of no one?”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of sacrificial victims it is “chosen as the best”, as Virgil's four choice bulls.^(OLD 2012) Usually it is outstanding, exceptional, remarkable.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Döderlein says that [[ēminēns]], [[excellēns]] and [[praestāns]] acknowledge superiority quietly, [[ēgregius]] with enthusiasm and ''eximius'' with admiration; all of them are used of good qualities, and of faults only in irony.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it “wonderful, priceless, extraordinary, select”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of outstanding beauty.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence in the sense “excepted”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of choice victims.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Excepted, [[m|en|exempt]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(of victims)'' Chosen, [[m|en|choice]], select.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Outstanding, [[m|en|exceptional]], remarkable, extraordinary.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[eximietas]]

+ * [[eximiī]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[eximō]]

+ * [[emō]]

+ * [[ēgregius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}