diadema Latin · revision 32408

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc διαδέω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [di.aˈdeː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [di.aˈdɛː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''diadēma''' ''n'' or f (genitive diadēmatis or diadēmatos or diadēmae); variously declined, third declension, first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A first-declension ''diadēma'', ''-ae'' (feminine) is found in Pomponius, Apuleius and later writers.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|διάδημα|tr=diádēma|t=headband]],^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|grc|διαδέω|tr=diadéō|t=to bind round]] with the result-noun suffix [[m|grc|-μα|tr=-ma]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short's earliest dated examples are in Cicero's ''Philippics'';^(Lewis & Short 1879) the comic writer Pomponius has the feminine form.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an ornamental headband, usually white and tied at the back, worn as the emblem of a king, and so a diadem or crown.^(OLD 2012) By metonymy it is royal power itself, “the crown”: Horace has virtue bestowing kingdom and diadem on one man, and Livy speaks of wearing a crown bloodied by a brother's murder.^(OLD 2012) Pomponius uses it figuratively of supremacy in charm.^(OLD 2012) The Vulgate has it in the Apocalypse.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it diadem or crown.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in the ''Philippics''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the crown as royal power.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – the Vulgate of the crowns in the Apocalypse.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English [[m|en|diadem]] is borrowed through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An ornamental headband; a [[m|en|diadem]], [[m|en|crown]], the emblem of a king.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Royal power, dominion, “the crown”.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Pre-eminence in something.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[diadēmālis]]

+ * [[diadēmātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|diadem]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}