praeteritus Latin · revision 31448

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *h₁ei-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯ˈtɛ.rɪ.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [preˈtɛː.ri.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praeteritus''' (feminine praeterita, neuter praeteritum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the participle of [[m|la|praetereō|t=to go past, pass by]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb is [[m|la|praeter|t=past, beyond]] with [[m|la|eō|t=to go]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*ei-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁ei-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008) who speaks of “the time now past”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is past, bygone or former, as Cicero's “the hope of future benefit helps more than the memory of a past favour”, and as a neuter noun the past, as Cicero's beast that has little sense of past or future and Tacitus' ''in praeteritum'', for the past.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) It is also just past, last, as Juvenal's friend with whom one dined last night.^(OLD 2012) In grammar it is the past tense, as Varro's three tenses, past, present and future.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “gone by, past and gone, departed”, and the neuter plural as “the past, bygone times or things”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of past time.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of the past tense.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal of last night.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Past, bygone, former.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Just past, last.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(grammar)'' Past, [[m|en|preterite]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(neuter)'' The [[m|en|past]], bygone things.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[praetereō]]

+ * [[eō]]

+ * [[praeter]]

+ * [[en|preterite]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}