praetextatus Latin · revision 32236

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯.tɛkˈstaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pre.tekˈstaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praetextātus''' (feminine praetextāta, neuter praetextātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|praetexta|-ātus|t1=toga with a purple border]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|praetexta]] is from [[m|la|praetexō|t=to weave in front, border]], which is [[m|la|prae-]] and [[m|la|texō|t=to weave]];^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008) de Vaan traces [[m|la|texō]] to [[itc-pro|*tekse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*teḱ-s-|t=to fashion]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of magistrates and of boys wearing the bordered toga, as Sextus Clodius, who had never worn it before.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means wearing the ''toga praetexta'', the dress of magistrates and of boys until they came of age;^(OLD 2012) Livy has a man with four sons in the man's toga and two still ''praetextātī''.^(OLD 2012) It then means being of that age, a boy, and as a noun a boy under age;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Gellius uses ''aetās praetextāta'' of the age under seventeen.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Juvenal's ''praetextātus adulter'' is an adulterer still a boy, and Martial's friendship from boyhood is ''praetextāta''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In Suetonius ''praetextāta verba'' are unseemly or obscene words, as Vespasian did not hold back from them.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of magistrates and boys wearing the toga praetexta.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of boys not yet of age.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of obscene words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of the age under seventeen.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Wearing the ''[[toga]] [[praetexta]]'', of magistrates and of boys under age.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of an age to wear the toga praetexta, [[m|en|juvenile]]; as a noun, a boy under age.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Characteristic of youth; unseemly, [[m|en|obscene]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Praetextātus'' is also a Roman cognomen, as of the consul Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}