inveteratus Latin · revision 32574

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *wet-os-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inveterātus''' (feminine inveterāta, neuter inveterātum); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the past participle of [[m|la|inveterō|t=to make old, let grow old]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) The verb is built on [[m|la|vetus|t=old]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*wetos-|t=year]] and [[ine-pro|*wet-os-|t=year]].^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[grc|ἔτος|tr=étos|t=year]] and [[sa|वत्सर|tr=vatsará-|t=year]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero, who speaks of wiping out a long-rooted barbarism.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is long-standing, ingrained, chronic, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Of things it is aged or matured: Pliny the Elder writes that aged honey-wine is harmless.^(OLD 2012) Livy uses it of a mind long practised in war.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it old, decrepit.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an ingrained barbarism.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a mind practised in war.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of aged honey-wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Allowed to grow old, aged, matured.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Long-standing, [[m|en|inveterate]], [[m|en|chronic]]; of persons, experienced, practised.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Old, [[m|en|decrepit]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[invetero|alt=inveterō]]

+ * [[vetus]]

+ * [[inveterasco|alt=inveterāscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}