rima Latin · revision 32608

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈriː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈriː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rīma''' ''f'' (genitive rīmae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan notes that several etymologies are possible in theory: a form ⟨*h₁reiḱ-sm-h₂-⟩, “breach”, from the root of [[m|la|rīxa|t=quarrel]], meaning to tear, would give the Latin word, but so would other preforms.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary derives it from [[ine-pro|*(H)reyH-|t=to tear, cut]], and the OLD compares [[lv|riêva|t=furrow, fold, cleft]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short, following older views, connected it with [[m|la|ringor|t=to open the mouth wide]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan dates it from Cato.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a narrow cleft, crack or chink: Horace has a narrow chink, and Ovid a wall split by a thin crack made when it was built.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) With ⟨agere⟩ it is to develop cracks: Cicero writes that two of his shops have collapsed and the rest are cracking.^(OLD 2012) Virgil calls lightning a fiery rent in the clouds.^(OLD 2012) In medicine it is a chap or crack in the skin, as in Celsus and Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary records a vulgar sense, the vulva.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of cracking shops.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of lightning as a fiery rent.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of chapped lips.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A narrow [[m|en|cleft]], [[m|en|crack]], [[m|en|fissure]], chink;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''rīmās agere'', to crack.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''ignea rīma'', a flash of lightning.^(OLD 2012)

+ # In medicine, a [[m|en|chap]] in the skin.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Vulgar, the vulva.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[rīmōsus]]

+ * [[rimula]]

+ * [[rīmor]]

+ * [[rīmō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rīmābundus]]

+ * [[rīmātim]]

+ * [[rīmātor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}