abditus Latin · revision 31995

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *dʰeh₁-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abditus''' (feminine abdita, neuter abditum); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the past participle [[der|la|abdō|t=to put away, hide]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan counts [[m|la|abdō]] among the compounds of [[m|la|-dō]], which go back to [[itc-pro|*-þō]] and the root [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to put]], whose simple verb Latin has not kept.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|τίθημι|tr=títhēmi|t=to put]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of animals hidden and covered with earth.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means hidden from sight or concealed, and of places out of the way or secluded, as Cicero's “what place was so remote that it was hidden?”^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses the neuter plural as a noun, of the hidden parts of the earth that miners search out with iron.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is hidden from knowledge, abstruse, as Cicero's “hidden and obscure things”, and of expressions obscure in meaning.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “concealed, hidden”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the hidden parts of the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of hidden animals, remote places and abstruse matters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|hidden|alt=Hidden]], [[m|en|concealed]]; of places, remote, [[m|en|secluded]]; as a noun, hidden places.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Hidden from knowledge, [[m|en|abstruse]], recondite; of expressions, obscure.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abdo|alt=abdō]]

+ * [[abditivus|alt=abditīvus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}