tectus Latin · revision 32391

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *(s)teg-e/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tēctus''', tēcta, tēctum; comparative tēctior, superlative tēctissimus^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the participle of [[m|la|tegō|t=to cover]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|tegō]] to [[itc-pro|*teg-e/o-|t=to cover]], with a participle [[m|itc-pro|*tekto-|t=covered]], and to [[ine-pro|*(s)teg-e/o-|t=to cover]]; the long ⟨ē⟩ of tēctus is due to Lachmann's lengthening.^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[grc|στέγω|tr=stégō|t=to keep off, keep in]] and [[lt|stógas|t=roof]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler has the word from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's earliest examples of the adjective are an inscription with a roofed theatre and Cicero, who writes of a small covered walk to be added to a house.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of buildings and passages it means roofed or covered: Hirtius has covered tunnels, and the Via Tēcta was the name of a road in Rome.^(OLD 2012) Caesar and Livy call a decked warship nāvis tēcta.^(OLD 2012) From covered it passed to hidden and concealed, of a river running underground in Ovid, of a secret desire in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Of people and their speech it means guarded or reserved: Cicero calls a man very cautious in speaking and writes to a friend in veiled words.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a covered walk, of a hidden desire and of a guarded speaker.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of decked ships.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a river flowing hidden under the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of buildings, [[m|en|roofed]], covered; nāvis tēcta, a decked ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Covered, hidden; of feelings or conditions, [[m|en|concealed]], disguised.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of people or speech, guarded, [[m|en|secretive]], reserved.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tego|alt=tegō]]

+ * [[tectum|alt=tēctum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}