erilis Latin · revision 32611

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁esh₂-ó-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛˈriː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈriː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''erīlis''' (neuter erīle); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''herīlis''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|erus|-īlis|t1=master]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|erus]] to [[itc-pro|*eso-|t=master]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁esh₂-ó-|t=master]], comparing [[hit|išhā-|t=master, lord]] and the Gaulish god Esus.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Plautus has “our master's concubine”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means of the master or mistress of a household, said by or of slaves: Terence has a slave say that he has deceived his master and pushed the master's son into marriage.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it poetic and especially Plautine.^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a noun it is the master's son, in the argument of a Plautine play, and a mistress, in Apuleius' vocative.^(OLD 2012) The spelling ⟨herīlis⟩ is less correct.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Köbler finds it again in medieval writers.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of the master's concubine.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of the master's son.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius as a noun for a mistress.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or belonging to the [[m|en|master]] or [[m|en|mistress]] of a household.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # The master's son; a mistress.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[erus]]

+ * [[era]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}