aequoreus Latin · revision 32149

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=la aequus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ae̯ˈkʷɔ.re.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈkʷɔː.re.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aequoreus''' (feminine aequorea, neuter aequoreum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Glosses also have ''aequorius''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aequor|-eus|t1=level surface; the sea]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The noun [[m|la|aequor]] is from [[m|la|aequus|t=level, even]], probably from [[itc-pro|*aikwos]], for which de Vaan finds no convincing etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Catullus' “Nereids of the sea”;^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL calls it a word of the new poets, much liked by Ovid, and accepted in prose only in the 4th century.^(TLL) It means of or belonging to the sea: Ovid calls Neptune the king of the sea, Virgil uses the sea race for fish, and ''aequoreus vitulus'' is a seal.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of places it means lying by the sea, and of islands and their people surrounded by the sea, as Ovid's sea-girt Britons.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Statius uses it of a river's surge that is like the sea.^(OLD 2012) In astronomy Manilius calls Aquarius the “youth of the waters”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of the Nereids of the sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the race of fish.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of Neptune and of the Britons surrounded by the sea.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius of a river surging like the sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or belonging to the [[m|en|sea]], marine;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''aequoreus vitulus'', a [[m|en|seal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Lying by the sea; of islands, surrounded by the sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Like that of the sea.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(astronomy)'' ''aequoreus iuvenis'': [[m|en|Aquarius]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aequor]]

+ * [[aequus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}