umbrosus Latin · revision 31896

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato the Elder|origins=la umbra}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ʊmˈbroː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [umˈbrɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''umbrōsus''' (feminine umbrōsa, neuter umbrōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|umbra|-ōsus|t1=shade, shadow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The noun [[m|la|umbra]] is generally connected with [[lt|ùnksna|t=shade]] and taken back to [[itc-pro|*unksrā-]], but de Vaan notes that no root etymology is known.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first example in the OLD is in Cato the Elder, who says willow beds should be planted in wet, shady places.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means full of shade, of places, as in Cicero's “I never saw a shadier place in summer” and Virgil's shadowy caverns, and of trees and the like, giving plenty of shade.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The neuter plural is used as a noun for shady places, as in Pliny the Elder and Seneca.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato the Elder of shady places.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a shady spot.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of shadowy caverns.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of shady places as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of places, full of [[m|en|shade]], [[m|en|shadowy]], [[m|en|shady]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of trees, giving plenty of shade.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(neuter plural as noun)'' Shady places.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[umbra]]

+ * [[opacus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}