honoratus Latin · revision 32674

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la honōs}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''honōrātus''' (feminine honōrāta, neuter honōrātum; comparative honōrātior, superlative honōrātissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the past participle [[der|la|honōrō|t=to honour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) That verb comes from [[m|la|honōs|t=honour, office]], for which de Vaan knows no further etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) In the OLD's earliest quotation Plautus calls a family the one most powerful and honoured there.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is honoured, respected, and of things bringing honour: Livy has the senate addressing certain men in the most honourable decree it could.^(OLD 2012) Of a magistrate or former magistrate it is distinguished by public office: Cicero thinks a man who gained office by the votes of the senate and people both honourable and honoured.^(OLD 2012) Ammianus uses it of higher military grades.^(TLL) Niermeyer records medieval senses: holding a high office or benefice, or a court office, and of land held as a tenure fit for a man of rank; as a noun, a person of high social standing.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of an honoured family.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a man distinguished by office.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus of military grades.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|honoured|alt=Honoured]], respected; bringing honour, [[m|en|honourable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Distinguished by public office.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Holding a court office; of land, held as a tenure fit for a man of rank.^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' As a noun, a person of high rank.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[honoro|alt=honōrō]]

+ * [[honos|alt=honōs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}