tabellarius Latin · revision 32624

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la tabula}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ta.bɛlˈlaː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ta.belˈlaː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tabellārius''' (feminine tabellāria, neuter tabellārium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|tabella|-ārius|t1=small tablet; letter; voting tablet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|tabella]] from [[m|la|tabula|t=board]], whose origin he calls uncertain: perhaps [[itc-pro|*taþlā-]], a root meaning to stand with an instrument suffix.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) In the OLD's earliest quotation for the noun he was about to send letter carriers to his correspondents the next day.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it relates to tablets: an inscription has direction posts set up along a road, and a ⟨lēx tabellāria⟩ is a law on voting by secret ballot, as Cassius' in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Seneca describes the ⟨nāvēs tabellāriae⟩ that are sent ahead to announce a fleet.^(OLD 2012) As a noun it is a letter carrier or courier, and in inscriptions a clerk or bookkeeper.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it courier, postman.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of letter carriers and of a ballot law.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of dispatch ships.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of tablets or letters;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''lēx tabellāria'', a law on voting by [[m|en|ballot]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''nāvis tabellāria'', a dispatch ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A direction post.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A letter carrier, [[m|en|courier]], messenger.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A clerk, bookkeeper.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tabella]]

+ * [[tabula]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}