monitus Latin · revision 32079

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈmɔ.nɪ.tʊs], [ˈmɔ.nɪ.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈmɔː.ni.tus], [ˈmɔː.ni.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''monitus''' ''m'' (genitive monitūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|moneō|-tus|t1=to remind, warn]], a fourth-declension action noun.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|moneō]] to [[itc-pro|*moneje-]] and [[ine-pro|*mon-eie-|t=to make think of, remind]], a causative of the root of [[m|la|mēns|t=mind]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[ae|mānaiia-|t=to make think]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who uses the phrase “by the prompting of fortune” once, in the treatise on divination.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means a reminding, warning or advice, and is mostly poetic, as Ovid's “at the nurse's warning”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In particular it is an admonition of the gods given through omens and signs: Virgil has the terrible warnings of the old seers and counsel given in the silent night, and Pliny the Younger speaks of revering the warnings of the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Servius notes that the dative singular and the plural datives are not used.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the prompting of fortune.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of warnings of seers and divine counsel.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a nurse's warning.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A reminding, [[m|en|warning]], [[m|en|advice]]; in the singular only in the ablative.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An [[m|en|admonition]] of the gods through omens; an omen, prophecy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moneo|alt=moneō]]

+ * [[monitor]]

+ * [[admonitus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Monitus'' is also the perfect passive participle of ''[[moneo|alt=moneō]]'', “warned, reminded”.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}