vicinia Latin · revision 32393

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *weiḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [wiːˈkiː.ni.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [viˈt͡ʃiː.ni.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vīcīnia''' ''f'' (genitive vīcīniae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vīcīnus|-ia|t1=near, neighbouring]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists both [[m|la|vīcīnus]] and vīcīnia among the derivatives of [[m|la|vīcus|t=village, street]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*weik-o-|t=settlement]] and [[ine-pro|*weiḱ-|t=settlement]].^(de Vaan 2008) Among the cognates of [[m|la|vīcus]] he names [[grc|οἶκος|tr=oîkos|t=house]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, of someone who lives in the house next door: proxumae viciniae habitat, “he lives in the nearest neighbourhood”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first the area around a place, the neighbourhood, and by metonymy the people who live there: Horace imagines the neighbourhood praising a fine funeral.^(OLD 2012) It is also nearness itself, as when Ovid says that the lover could not bear the closeness of his mistress.^(OLD 2012) Later writers extend it to time and likeness: Lucan has men close to death, and Seneca those who stand near wisdom without yet having it.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and post-Augustan, and refer to [[vicinitas|alt=vīcīnitās]] beside it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Medieval Latin it also meant a region or its surroundings, a rural community, and the village assembly or court.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of the house next door.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the neighbours as a group.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca the Younger of nearness to wisdom.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – a village community and its assembly.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|neighbourhood|alt=Neighbourhood]], the area around a place; [[m|en|vicinity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The people of a neighbourhood, neighbours.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Nearness, [[m|en|proximity]]; closeness in time.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Similarity, approximation.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A region, the surrounding country.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A village community; the assembly or court of a village.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}