annosus Latin · revision 32558

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=ine-pro *h₂et-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [anˈnoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [anˈnɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''annōsus''' (feminine annōsa, neuter annōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|annus|-ōsus|t1=year]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|annus]] to [[itc-pro|*atno-|t=year]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂et-no-]], from a root "to go", so that the year is what goes round.^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[osc|akeneí|t=in the year]] and [[xum|acnu|t=year]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Horace, who has a long-lived crow.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it a favourite of the Augustan poets and later prose: Ovid has an old woman, Tibullus old wine, Virgil ancient oaks and an aged ash, Horace a long-lived crow.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is full of years, old, immemorial, and it qualifies age itself, as Ovid's long old age.^(OLD 2012) It can mean lasting many years: Ovid has a long delay.^(OLD 2012) Augustine has the comparative ⟨annōsior⟩ and the superlative ⟨annōsissimus⟩.^(TLL) Köbler finds it in a charter of 889.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a long-lived crow.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of an old woman and of long old age.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine has the comparative and superlative.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Full of years, [[m|en|aged]], long-lived, old, [[m|en|immemorial]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of age itself, long.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Lasting many years, long.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[annōsitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[annus]]

+ * [[annuus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}