versiculus Latin · revision 32601

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [wɛrˈsɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [verˈsiː.ku.lus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''versiculus''' ''m'' (genitive versiculī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions have ''versuculus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|versus|-culus|t1=line, verse]], a diminutive.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists [[m|la|versus]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|vertō|t=to turn]], from [[ine-pro|*wert-|t=to turn]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) In the OLD's earliest quotation Cicero mocks an account of a quaestorship given in three short lines.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a short line of writing: Cicero complains of three lines from Brutus, and speaks of a line of a letter.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also a short line of verse, and in the plural light or epigrammatic poetry: Cicero says that the language of the comic poets differs from everyday speech only by being in verse.^(OLD 2012) Inscriptions have ⟨versuculus⟩.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is a short verse, a [[m|en|versicle]], and in medieval Latin a verse of the Bible.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a few lines of writing and of verse.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * medieval – A verse of the Bible.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A short line of writing, a mere line.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A short line of [[m|en|verse]]; in the plural, light verses.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A short verse, [[m|en|versicle]].^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A verse of the Bible.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[versus]]

+ * [[verto|alt=vertō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}