blande Latin · revision 32430

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=la blandus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈbɫan.deː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈblan.de]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''blandē''' (comparative blandius, superlative blandissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|blandus|-ē|t1=flattering, charming]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The origin of [[m|la|blandus]] is uncertain: de Vaan rejects the link with [[m|la|mollis|t=soft]] as phonetically impossible, reports Schrijver's preform *mlh₂-d-no-, which would connect [[grc|μαλακός|tr=malakós|t=soft]] and [[sga|mláith|t=soft]], and mentions Ernout and Meillet's idea of a flattering voice, which would bring in [[m|la|balbus|t=stammering]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Naevius.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in a coaxing or winning way, charmingly or seductively.^(OLD 2012) Seneca uses it of things that draw one on seductively, and Pliny the Elder of a bark that pleases the eye more than any other.^(TLL) The Vulgate's Proverbs says that wine goes down smoothly but at the last bites like a snake, and Ammianus has a bird fluttering soothingly round a resting beast.^(TLL) Plautus and Titinius have the older adverb [[blanditer]].^(TLL) The TLL lists amīcē, benignē, leniter and molliter beside it, and minaciter, saeviter and sevērē as its opposites.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it softly, tenderly, caressingly.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca the Younger of seductive things.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – the Vulgate of wine going down smoothly.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In a coaxing or winning way, [[m|en|charmingly|alt=charmingly]], [[m|en|persuasively]], seductively; [[m|en|flatteringly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Softly, tenderly, courteously.^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[blandiloquentia]]

+ * [[blandīmentum]]

+ * [[blandior]]

+ * [[blanditia]]

+ * [[blandītus]]

+ * [[blandus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}