triticum Latin · revision 31174

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *terh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtriː.tɪ.kũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtriː.ti.kum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trīticum''' ''n'' (genitive trīticī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|trītus|t=rubbed, threshed]], the past participle of [[m|la|terō|t=to rub, thresh]], with the suffix [[m|la|-icum]], so “grain for threshing”;^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Etymonline) Varro already derives it from ⟨terō⟩.^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Etymonline) De Vaan derives ⟨terō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*tera-]] and [[ine-pro|*terh₁-|t=to rub]], cognate with [[grc|τείρω|tr=teírō|t=to wear out, distress]] and [[ru|тереть|tr=terétʹ|t=to rub]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is the first author in Lewis and Short, with ''trīticī modiōs decem'', “ten measures of wheat”, in the ''Stichus'';^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) the OLD's first example for the growing plant is Ennius, of oats and darnel growing among the wheat;^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler gives Varro.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is wheat as a plant or crop, especially a wheat of the emmer group, and the threshed grain as a commodity, as in Plautus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella and Pliny the Elder describe its kinds.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “wheat”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ The Modern Latin genus name ''Triticum'' comes from it, and with ''Secale'' it gave English [[m|en|triticale]] in 1952.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of measures of wheat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of wheat as a crop.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro derives it from ''terō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1952 – English [[m|en|triticale]], from ''Triticum'' and ''Secale''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|wheat|alt=Wheat]] (the plant or crop).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Threshed wheat, wheat as a commodity.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[trīticārius]]

+ * [[trīticeus]]

+ * [[triticiarius]]

+ * [[triticinus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[terō]]

+ * [[far]]

+ * [[frūmentum]]

+ * [[hordeum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}