vector Latin · revision 32548

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=ine-pro *weǵʰ-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwɛk.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvɛk.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vector''' ''m'' (genitive vectōris, feminine vectrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vehō|-tor|t1=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vehō]] to [[itc-pro|*weχ-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*weǵʰ-e/o-|t=to carry]].^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[xum|arveitu|t=to add]] and [[sa|वहति|tr=váhati|t=to carry, convey]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Lucilius, who praises a horse: not handsome, an ambler, an excellent carrier.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is a bearer, most often an animal: Ovid's ass that carries Silenus, Seneca's bull that carried the girl.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Statius calls Charon the last ferryman, and Apuleius calls Mercury the conveyor of songs.^(OLD 2012) It is also a passenger on a ship, and a rider on horseback or in a vehicle, as in Propertius.^(OLD 2012) English took it as [[m|en|vector]] for a line in astronomy in 1704 and for a quantity with magnitude and direction in 1846.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of a horse.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of a rider.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the ass of Silenus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of Mercury.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1704 – English uses it in astronomy.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1846 – English uses it in mathematics.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # One that [[m|en|carries]] or transports, a bearer, especially an animal; a boatman; one who brings something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|passenger]] on a ship; a [[m|en|rider]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(New Latin, mathematics)'' A [[m|en|vector]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[veho|alt=vehō]]

+ * [[vectura|alt=vectūra]]

+ * [[vehiculum]]

+ * [[en|vector]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}