amictus Latin · revision 31517

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=late 2nd–early 1st century BC, Titinius|origins=ine-pro *(H)ieh₁-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''amictus''' ''m'' (genitive amictūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|amiciō|-tus]], from the verb “to throw around oneself, clothe”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis and Short take its original sense to be the throwing of a garment about oneself.^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists ⟨amiciō⟩ among the compounds of [[iaciō|t=to throw]], with the prefix [[m|la|amb-|t=around]] given by Wiktionary;^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) he traces ⟨iaciō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*jak-i-|t=to throw]] and [[ine-pro|*(H)ieh₁-|t=to throw, let go]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from the comic poet Titinius,^(de Vaan 2008) who has people watching someone's gait, gestures and way of dressing;^(OLD 2012) Köbler gives Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a loose upper garment, mantle or cloak, as Virgil's head veiled in a purple mantle, and clothing or dress in general, as Cicero's Scythian who wears a Scythian covering.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also a way of dressing or fashion, as when Cicero speaks of imitating someone's dress, and a covering or drapery, as Catullus' cloth draped over a couch.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In poetry it is the mantle of the sky, of vegetation, of night or of sleep, as Lucretius' change of sky.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “vesture, garment, amice”,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin it is the amice, the linen cloth a priest wears over his neck and shoulders at Mass.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * late 2nd–early 1st century BC – Titinius of a way of dressing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the mantle of the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of clothing and of fashion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a purple mantle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A loose upper garment, [[m|en|mantle]], cloak.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Clothing, dress, [[m|en|garb]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A way of dressing, fashion.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A covering, [[m|en|drapery]]; in poetry, the mantle of the sky or of night.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The [[m|en|amice]], a priest's linen neck-cloth.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[amiciō]]

+ * [[amiculum]]

+ * [[iaciō]]

+ * [[vestis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}