tempestivus Latin · revision 32143

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *temp-os}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [tɛm.pɛsˈtiː.wʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [tem.pesˈtiː.vus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tempestīvus''' (feminine tempestīva, neuter tempestīvum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tempestās|-īvus|t1=time, season]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains both words from the s-stem of [[m|la|tempus|t=time]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*tempos-|t=stretch, measure]] and [[ine-pro|*temp-os|t=stretch]]: a stretch, then a stretch of time, then time or occasion.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it in his work on farming of basil ready at the right time and of oak timber that is fit for felling from midsummer to midwinter.^(OLD 2012) Köbler names Plautus as its first author.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is ready at the proper time, in season, of plants, fruit and timber.^(OLD 2012) Of persons it means in one's prime, and of women ripe for marriage;^(OLD 2012) Ovid uses it of Aeneas, ripe for heaven.^(OLD 2012) Most often it means happening or done at the right time, timely, seasonable or opportune, as Cicero's timely etesian winds, and of times suitable, as Ovid's hour fit for stories.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) A ''convīvium tempestīvum'' was a dinner party that began early, and so an elaborate one: Cicero calls dancing the last companion of early dinners and pleasant places.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it at the right time, seasonable, fitting, opportune.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of basil and timber ready in season.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of timely winds and early dinner parties.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of Aeneas, ripe for heaven.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of men in their prime.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of plants and fruit, ready at the proper time, in [[m|en|season]]; of timber, fit for felling.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of persons, in one's prime, [[m|en|mature]]; of women, ripe for marriage.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Happening or done at the right time, [[m|en|timely]], seasonable, [[m|en|opportune]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''convīvium tempestīvum'': a dinner party beginning early, an elaborate feast.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[intempestīvus]]

+ * [[tempestīvē]]

+ * [[tempestīvitās]]

+ * [[tempestīvō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tempestās]]

+ * [[tempus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}