sollers Latin · revision 32182

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *sol(h₂)-no-, ine-pro *h₂r-tí-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsɔl.lɛrs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɔl.lers]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sollers''' (genitive sollertis, comparative sollertior, superlative sollertissimus, adverb sollerter); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''sōlers''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ The ablative singular is regularly ''sollertī'';^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has ''sollerte''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sollus|ars|t1=whole, entire|t2=skill]], from a stem [[m|la|*soll-arti-]], so literally having all skill.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sollus]] to [[itc-pro|*solno-|t=whole]] and [[ine-pro|*sol(h₂)-no-|t=whole]], and [[m|la|ars]] to [[m|itc-pro|*arti-]] and [[m|ine-pro|*h₂r-tí-|t=the fitting]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|sullus|t=all]], [[cy|holl|t=all]] and [[grc|ἄρτι|tr=árti|t=just, exactly]].^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[m|la|allers]], built the same way on a word for entire.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Terence,^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Eunuchus'' promises a youth accomplished in all that a free young man should know.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means full of devices, clever, skilled or resourceful, of people and animals, and of activities and contrivances ingeniously devised, as Cicero's skilful and subtle description of the parts of the body.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is glossed skilled, clever.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of an accomplished youth.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an ingenious description.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid has the ablative ''sollerte''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Full of expedients, [[m|en|clever]], skilled, [[m|en|ingenious]], resourceful.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of activities or things, ingeniously devised.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sollertia]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sollus]]

+ * [[ars]]

+ * [[sollicitus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}