frumentarius Latin · revision 30999

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [fruː.mɛnˈtaː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [fru.menˈtaː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''frūmentārius''' (feminine frūmentāria, neuter frūmentārium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ As a noun: '''frūmentārius''' ''m'' (genitive frūmentāriī); second declension.^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|frūmentum|-ārius|t1=grain, corn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Köbler connects ⟨frūmentum⟩ with [[m|la|fruor|t=to enjoy]].^(Köbler 2010) The noun is the adjective used of a person.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Pseudolus'', of corn dealers: ''amīca es frūmentāriīs'', “you are a friend to the corn merchants”, who all have huge heaps of grain at home.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it is “of corn”: Cato has the corn accounts and corn-producing land, and ''rēs frūmentāria'' is the grain supply or provisions of an army or a city, as Cicero's fear and shortage of corn.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) A ''lēx frūmentāria'' is a law on the distribution of cheap or free corn, as that of Gaius Gracchus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ As a noun it is first a corn dealer, then in the army a soldier sent out to find corn, a forager (Hirtius), and later a member of a special corps used as couriers and agents.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In Medieval Latin it is the officer in charge of a manor's granary.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of corn accounts and corn land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the corn supply and the corn law of Gaius Gracchus.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Hirtius of foragers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of [[m|en|corn]] or grain; corn-producing.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''rēs frūmentāria'': the corn supply, [[m|en|provision|alt=provisions]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Relating to the distribution of corn, ''lēx frūmentāria'', a corn law.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A corn dealer, grain [[m|en|merchant]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(military)'' A [[m|en|forager]]; a member of the corps of ''frūmentāriī'', couriers and agents.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The keeper of a manor's [[m|en|granary]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[frūmentum]]

+ * [[frūmentor]]

+ * [[fruor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}