anne Latin · revision 32523

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''anne''' (conjunction, not inflected)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|an|-ne|t1=or, whether|t2=interrogative particle]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan traces [[m|la|an]] to [[itc-pro|*an]] and, with a question mark, to [[ine-pro|*h₂en|t=there, on the other side]]; he compares [[lt|angu|t=or]] and [[prg|anga-anga|t=whether]], and finds the link with [[grc|ἄν|tr=án]] uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it in indirect questions: a slave says that his master will not stop to think whether an order is fair or unfair.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a fuller form of [[an]], with the same use.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In direct questions Cicero asks someone for what reason he acted, and in alternatives it introduces the second option: Cicero wonders whether to speak of a consulship won or one carried out, and whether to name Gabinius, Pompey or both.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus in indirect questions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in direct and alternative questions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # In a question with alternatives, [[m|en|or]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # In direct or indirect questions, [[m|en|whether]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[an]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}