patulus Latin · revision 32497

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpa.tʊ.ɫʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpaː.tu.lus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''patulus''' (feminine patula, neuter patulum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pateō|-ulus|t1=to be open]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan calls [[m|la|pateō]] an inner-Italic formation, [[itc-pro|*patē-]], on a base *pat- that he discusses under [[m|la|pandō|t=to spread out]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

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

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first of openings, wide open or gaping: Lucretius has wide nostrils, and Cicero a mussel with two large gaping shells.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro uses it of a place open to common use.^(OLD 2012) It also means spreading wide, of the expanse of the world in Lucretius and of spreading trees in Varro, and later of broad dishes and broad leaves.^(OLD 2012) The TLL finds no comparative or superlative.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it extended, open.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of spreading trees and of a common space.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of wide nostrils.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a gaping mussel.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Wide open, [[m|en|gaping]]; open, accessible.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Spreading, broad, extended; of trees, wide-spreading.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[prōpatulus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pateo|alt=pateō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}