sagittarius Latin · revision 31135

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=120–67 BC, Sisenna|origins=la sagitta}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sa.ɡɪtˈtaː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [sa.d͡ʒitˈtaː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sagittārius''' ''m'' (genitive sagittāriī or sagittārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|sagitta|t=arrow]] with the suffix [[m|la|-ārius]], first as an adjective “of arrows”, then as a noun “archer”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no etymology for ⟨sagitta⟩, which Etymonline calls probably a pre-Latin Mediterranean word.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example of the noun is the historian Sisenna, who placed the slingers and archers behind the armed men.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a noun it is an archer or bowman, and as an adjective “armed with bow and arrows”, as Livy's mounted archers.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Cicero's ''Aratea'' it is the constellation and zodiac sign of the Archer.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The jurist Tarruntenus Paternus lists ''sagittāriī'', arrow-makers, among the craftsmen of the army, and Pliny the Elder has ''sagittārius calamus'', a reed good for arrows.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “archer”.^(Stelten 1995) The name of the constellation was borrowed into late Old English.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 120–67 BC – Sisenna of archers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of mounted archers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of reeds for arrows.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late Old English – Borrowed as the name of the constellation [[m|en|Sagittarius]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|archer]], bowman.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The constellation and zodiac sign of the Archer, [[m|en|Sagittarius]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A maker of arrows, [[m|en|fletcher]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Armed with bow and arrows; used for arrows.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sagitta]]

+ * [[sagittātus]]

+ * [[sagittifer]]

+ * [[sagittō]]

+ * [[sagittula]]

+ * [[arcus]]

+ * [[funditor]]

+ * [[en|Sagittarius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}