spado Latin · revision 31877

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1st century BC, Publilius Syrus|origins=grc σπάδων}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''spadō''' ''m'' (genitive spadōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|σπάδων|tr=spádōn|t=eunuch]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) Köbler compares the root [[ine-pro|*spē(i)-|t=to pull, stretch]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Publilius Syrus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a eunuch, and also any impotent man;^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that in the Digest it is wider than [[castratus|alt=castrātus]], covering impotence by nature as well as by castration.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella and Pliny the Elder use it of barren shoots and of plants that bear no fruit or seed.^(OLD 2012) Vegetius has ''equus spadō'' for a gelding, and in Medieval Latin it means a gelding or a wether.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it “eunuch”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century BC – Publilius Syrus.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of barren shoots.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of palms without fruit.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|eunuch]]; any [[m|en|impotent]] man.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of plants, a barren shoot or plant.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|gelding]]; a [[m|en|wether]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[spadōnātus]]

+ * [[spadōnīnus]]

+ * [[spadōnius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[castratus|alt=castrātus]]

+ * [[eunuchus|alt=eunūchus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}