tentorium Latin · revision 32520

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Hirtius|origins=ine-pro *ten-d(h)-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tentōrium''' ''n'' (genitive tentōriī or tentōrī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tendō|-tōrium|t1=to stretch]], literally something stretched out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|tendō]] to [[itc-pro|*tend-]] and [[ine-pro|*ten-d(h)-|t=to stretch]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and Lewis & Short date it from Hirtius, in the eighth book of the ''Gallic War''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a shelter of stretched skins or cloth, usually for soldiers, a tent: Virgil, Ovid, Lucan and Suetonius use it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short give [[tabernaculum|alt=tabernāculum]] as a synonym.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it tent, drapery, and Köbler records it in British Medieval Latin in 1289.^(Stelten 1995)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Hirtius of tents.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of tents.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of tents.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1289 – recorded in British Medieval Latin.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|tent]], a shelter of stretched skins or cloth, usually military.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|drapery]], hanging.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[tentōriolum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tendo|alt=tendō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}