communiter Latin · revision 32501

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *ḱom-moy-ni-s}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔmˈmuː.nɪ.tɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [komˈmuː.ni.ter]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''commūniter''' (comparative commūnius, superlative commūnissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|commūnis|-ter|t1=common, shared]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary traces [[m|la|commūnis]] through Old Latin [[m|la|comoinis]] to [[itc-pro|*kommoinis]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱom-moy-ni-s]], from the root [[m|ine-pro|*mey-]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is in Cato, of people pounding grain together;^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler's first author is Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means jointly or in common, and both or all alike: a speech of Gracchus speaks of someone looking after the people, the state and himself alike.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it of speaking in general terms, and Seneca of a word used in its ordinary sense: everyone who writes verse is commonly called a poet.^(OLD 2012) Isidore explains several words from it.^(TLL) In Medieval Latin it also means in the usual way, in the aggregate, and publicly or openly.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of working together.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of speaking in general terms.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca the Younger of the ordinary sense of a word.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Middle Ages – publicly, openly.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|jointly|alt=Jointly]], in common, [[m|en|together]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # Both or all alike, indiscriminately.^(OLD 2012)

+ # In general terms; in the ordinary sense, [[m|en|commonly]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' In the usual way; publicly, openly.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[communis|alt=commūnis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}