trames Latin · revision 32193

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂mei-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtraː.mɛs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtraː.mes]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trāmes''' ''m'' (genitive trāmitis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|trāns|t=across]] and the root of [[m|la|meō|t=to go, pass]], from [[itc-pro|*trans-mit-|t=going across]], like [[m|la|sēmita|t=path]] from [[m|itc-pro|*sē-mit-|t=going aside]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan derives the verb from [[ine-pro|*h₂mei-o-|t=to exchange]], through a shift from changing to changing places and going past, and compares [[wlm|tremyn|t=to go past]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short connected it with [[grc|τέρμα|tr=térma|t=goal]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first example is a fragment of Plautus quoted by Varro: “I began to go home by the path on the right”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a footpath or track, especially a cross-path or by-way as opposed to a high road: Cicero writes of a man who left in his general's cloak, not along roads but along side-tracks, and Sallust that Catiline tried to flee secretly by tracks.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Virgil uses it of the bed of a stream, and Propertius of the course of the stars.^(OLD 2012) Mela calls the Isthmus a narrow strip of land, and Gellius uses it of the branches of a family.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is a path, course or by-way.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a path home.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of leaving along side-tracks.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the bed of a stream.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43/44 AD – Mela of a narrow strip of land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of the branches of a family.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|footpath]], [[m|en|track]], by-way; the bed of a stream; the course along which something moves.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A narrow strip of land.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A branch of a family.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[semita|alt=sēmita]]

+ * [[meo|alt=meō]]

+ * [[trans|alt=trāns]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}