diuturnus Latin · revision 31134

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *di-eu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [di.uːˈtʊr.nʊs], [di.ʊˈtʊr.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [di.uˈtur.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''diū̆turnus''' (feminine diū̆turna, neuter diū̆turnum, comparative diū̆turnior); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Ovid scans the second syllable short (''diŭturnus'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|diū|t=for a long time]] with the suffix [[m|la|-urnus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The TLL compares [[m|la|diūtius|t=longer]] and [[m|la|diurnus|t=daily]].^(TLL) De Vaan explains ⟨diū⟩ as an old case form of the word for “day”, from [[itc-pro|*diwos|t=of the day]] and [[ine-pro|*di-eu-|t=day, sky]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Cicero as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) who asks what anyone who knows what is eternal can think lasting in human affairs.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is lasting a long time, not ephemeral, as Cicero's rule that lasting goods are preferred to brief ones; of things it is durable, as Varro's stake, and of persons continuing long in the same state, as Cicero's state that should be neither without a king nor under one king for long.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also long-standing or chronic, as Cicero's “not recent but old and long-standing infamy”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval Latin it was also confused with ''diurnus'' and means “daily”.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it “of long duration, lasting”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of what lasts long and of long-standing infamy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of a durable stake.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Lasting, of long duration, [[m|en|permanent]], (of things) [[m|en|durable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Long-standing, [[m|en|chronic]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Daily.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[diūturnitās]]

+ * [[perdiūturnus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[diū]]

+ * [[diūtinus]]

+ * [[longinquus]]

+ * [[diurnus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein says that [[diū]] and [[dūdum]] denote a space of time, ''diū'' of many days or years, ''dūdum'' of minutes or hours, while [[prīdem]] marks a point of time long before.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}