cicatrix Latin · revision 31780

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɪˈkaː.triːks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [t͡ʃiˈkaː.triks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cicātrīx''' ''f'' (genitive cicātrīcis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is unknown.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary suggests it may come from a substrate language.^(Wiktionary) Köbler hesitantly compares the root [[ine-pro|*kenk-|t=to gird, bind]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) Terence's ''Eunuchus'' has a man who does not talk about his battles or his scars.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In medicine it is the tissue that forms over a healing wound, as in Celsus, and Cicero uses it figuratively of not wanting to reopen the healed wound of the state.^(OLD 2012) Most often it is the mark of an old wound, a scar, and figuratively the lasting mark of suffering, as Seneca's honourable scar.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil applies it to the mark left in a vine's bark by grazing flocks, and Manilius to the visible seam of the heavens.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “wound, scar, mark, bruise”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a soldier's scars.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the marks on a vine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of scar tissue.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1640s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|cicatrix]];^(Etymonline) ''cicatrice'' is earlier, from the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Scar tissue on a healing [[m|en|wound]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|scar]]; figuratively, a lasting mark.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A mark of pruning or injury in a plant's bark.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cicātrīcōsus]]

+ * [[cicātrīcula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|cicatrix]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}