reliquum Latin · revision 30924

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''reliquum''' ''n'' (genitive reliquī); second declension^(OLD 2012)

+ It is also spelled ''reliquom'', ''relicuum'' and ''relicum''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the neuter of [[reliquus|t=remaining]] used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan explains the adjective from an older ⟨*relikuwos⟩, formed on [[m|la|relinquō|t=to leave behind]], whose base [[m|la|linquō|t=to leave]] continues [[itc-pro|*linkʷ-]] and the nasal present [[ine-pro|*li-n-kʷ-|t=to leave]]; cognate with [[grc|λείπω|tr=leípō|t=to leave]] and [[sga|léicid|t=to let go, leave]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Poenulus'': ''paene oblītus sum relicuom dīcere'', “I almost forgot to say the rest”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the rest or remainder, and in the plural the mortal remains of a person in inscriptions, ''dē reliquō'' is “as for the rest”, and Varro uses ''sīc reliqua'' for “and so on”.^(OLD 2012) With a partitive genitive, ''nihil reliquī'' is “nothing left”, and ''nihil reliquī facere'' to leave nothing undone (Cicero).^(OLD 2012) In accounts it is a sum still owing, arrears, or a balance.^(OLD 2012) The plural is also the future, as Cicero's bitter expectation of what was to come, and ''in reliquum'' is “for the future”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of the rest of a story and of nothing left.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of a sum still owing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the future.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The rest, [[m|en|remainder]], ''(plural)'' the remains (of a person); ''dē reliquō'', as for the rest.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ # ''nihil reliquī'': nothing left, ''nihil reliquī facere'', to leave nothing undone.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A sum still owing, [[m|en|arrears]]; a balance.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ # ''(plural)'' The future, ''in reliquum'', for the future.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[reliquus]]

+ * [[relinquō]]

+ * [[reliquiae]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}