suburbanus Latin · revision 32338

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la urbs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊ.bʊrˈbaː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [su.burˈbaː.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''suburbānus''' (feminine suburbāna, neuter suburbānum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sub-|urbānus|t1=under, near|t2=of the city]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan, following Driessen, derives [[m|la|urbs|t=city]] from [[itc-pro|*worf-]] and [[ine-pro|*u(o)rbʰ-|t=enclosure]], comparing [[xum|uerfale|t=area for taking auspices]] and [[hit|u̯arpa-|t=enclosure]]; on this view the city was first the enclosed space where auspices were taken.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first, in the speech for Roscius of Ameria, of a pleasant estate near the city.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is said of country estates and other places near the city, usually Rome, and of people living or plants growing there;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it of a suburban grove of Diana and of a triumph held outside the city.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a neuter noun, suburbānum is a country seat near the city, as in Cicero's ''Verrines''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medieval texts it describes the part of a diocese outside its capital city, and as a noun an inhabitant of a suburb or of the surrounding country.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of estates near Rome.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a grove and a triumph near the city.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 538/539–594 AD – Gregory of Tours uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Situated near the city, especially Rome; [[m|en|suburban]]; of people, dwelling near the city.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Taking place near the city; characteristic of those living near it.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of the part of a diocese outside its city.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|country seat]] near the city.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An inhabitant of a [[m|en|suburb]] or of the country round a city.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[suburbānitās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}