antiquitus Latin · revision 32246

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=ine-pro *h₂enti-h₃kʷ-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [anˈtiː.kʷɪ.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [anˈtiː.kʷi.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''antīquitus''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|antīquus|-itus|t1=ancient, old]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The grammarian Charisius compares [[m|la|dīvīnitus|t=from heaven]], formed in the same way from [[m|la|dīvīnus]].^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|antīquus]] to [[ine-pro|*h₂enti-h₃kʷ-o-|t=facing the front]], built on the ancestor of [[m|la|ante|t=before]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Caesar,^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Civil War'' speaks of the Albici, who had been under their protection from of old.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means from of old, from a distant date, and in former times, long ago: Caesar reports that most of the Belgae were descended from the Germans and had been brought across the Rhine long ago.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that Cicero does not use it and that among the poets it does not appear before Silius Italicus.^(TLL) Köbler finds it often in the early medieval law codes.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of a long-standing alliance and of an ancient migration.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus is the first poet to use it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # From of old, from a distant date, since ancient times.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # In former times, [[m|en|formerly]], long ago.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[antiquus|alt=antīquus]]

+ * [[divinitus|alt=dīvīnitus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}