horreum Latin · revision 32041

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''horreum''' ''n'' (genitive horreī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A feminine ''horrea'' is reported for the orator Calidius.^(OLD 2012)

+ Inscriptions also spell it ''horeum''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It has no agreed etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan tentatively derives it from ⟨*ǵʰr-so-⟩ “enclosed”, from the root [[ine-pro|*ǵʰer-|t=to grab]] of [[hortus]] and [[cohors]].^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary mentions a link with [[hordeum|t=barley]].^(Wiktionary) Festus explained it as ⟨farreum⟩, from [[far|t=emmer wheat]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) whose prologue in the ''Menaechmi'' promises to measure out the plot “not by the peck, but by the granary itself”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a storehouse for grain, a barn or granary, and Cicero calls Capua the granary of the Campanian land.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also a store for other goods, as Horace's wine jar taken down from the storeroom.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “barn, storehouse, granary”.^(Stelten 1995) British medieval sources also use it of a hay barn and of the tithe barn, and figuratively after the Gospel image of the wheat gathered into the barn.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a granary.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero calls Capua the granary of Campania.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a wine store.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – Of a tithe barn.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A storehouse for grain, [[m|en|granary]], [[m|en|barn]]; a town or region that supplies grain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A store for other goods, [[m|en|storehouse]], magazine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' ''horreum decimale'', a [[m|en|tithe barn]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hordeum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}