triclinium Latin · revision 31649

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=grc τρικλίνιον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [triːˈkliː.ni.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [triˈkliː.ni.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trīclīnium''' ''n'' (genitive trīclīniī or trīclīnī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Varro has the spelling ''tricil-'', and inscriptions ''trichil-''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|τρικλίνιον|tr=triklínion|t=dining room with three couches]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|grc|τρεῖς|tr=treîs|t=three]] and [[m|grc|κλίνη|tr=klínē|t=couch]].^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) Saalfeld and Köbler give the Greek source as [[m|grc|τρίκλινον|tr=tríklinon]].^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest example is Naevius, in whom someone asks “where will you dine, here or in the dining room?”^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is both the set of couches on three sides of a table, on which diners reclined, and the dining room itself: Varro tells of dining on a raised spot where a triclinium had been set up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “eating couch; parlour, dining room”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius of a dining room.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of a set of dining couches.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An arrangement of three [[m|en|couch|alt=couches]] round a table, for reclining at meals.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A [[m|en|dining room]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[trīclīniāris]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[architrīclīnus]]

+ * [[trīclīniarchēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}