moechus Latin · revision 32557

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc μοιχός}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''moechus''' ''m'' (genitive moechī, feminine moecha); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription has the vocative ''moice'';^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) ''moecus'' is also found.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|μοιχός|tr=moikhós|t=adulterer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Köbler mentions, with a question mark, Pokorny's root [[ine-pro|*meyǵʰ-|t=to urinate]] for the Greek word.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus, whose ''Miles Gloriosus'' calls a man a great womaniser.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an adulterer or fornicator, in Terence, Horace and Juvenal.^(Lewis & Short 1879) A grammarian insists that the word for adulterer is spelled with ⟨oe⟩, but inscriptions have the vocative ⟨moice⟩ and the spellings ⟨moecus⟩ and ⟨moeccus⟩ occur;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Catullus has the feminine vocative ⟨moeca⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it adulterer.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a womaniser.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|adulterer]]; a [[m|en|fornicator]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[moecha]]

+ * [[moechimōnium]]

+ * [[moechor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moechas]]

+ * [[moechissō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}