venerabilis Latin · revision 32578

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la veneror}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [wɛ.nɛˈraː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ve.neˈraː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''venerābilis''' (neuter venerābile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|veneror|-bilis|t1=to worship, revere]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Virgil calls the golden bough the venerable gift of the fateful wand.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis & Short note that it is not found before the Augustan age.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is worthy of reverence for holiness, age or rank: Livy calls Evander venerable for the wonder of letters, and more venerable still for the belief in his mother Carmenta's divinity.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian applies it to the great men of the past.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Valerius Maximus uses it actively, of the Senate's reverence towards the gods.^(OLD 2012) In the Church it became a title of honour, and in medieval Latin ⟨vir venerābilis⟩ is the title of bishops and abbots, ⟨vīta venerābilis⟩ the life of a monk.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the golden bough.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of Evander.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of the great men of the past.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Worthy of respect for holiness or age, [[m|en|venerable]], [[m|en|august]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Showing reverence, [[m|en|reverential]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Reverend, a title of honour.^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' ''vir venerābilis'', title of a bishop or abbot;^(Niermeyer 1976) ''vīta venerābilis'', the life of a monk.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[veneror]]

+ * [[veneratio|alt=venerātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}