aenum Latin · revision 32688

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂eies-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈeː.nũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈɛː.num]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aēnum''' ''n'' (genitive aēnī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''ahēnum'', and the OLD files it with the form ''aēneum''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the neuter, used as a noun, of [[m|la|aēnus|t=of bronze]], beside [[aeneus|alt=aēneus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives these adjectives from [[aes]] “bronze”, through [[itc-pro|*ajes-no-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eies-no-|t=of metal]], comparing [[xum|ahesnes|t=made of bronze]]; the spelling with ⟨h⟩ may come from Umbrian, and the word itself may have been borrowed from Umbrian.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotations are in Plautus, who lists one bronze pot and eight jars and wants the cook's cauldron full.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Cato, who mentions the lid of a bronze vessel.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a vessel of bronze or copper, above all a cooking pot or cauldron: Cato has must poured into a cauldron, and Virgil men setting up cauldrons on the shore.^(OLD 2012) Seneca recalls old Pelias boiled in a cauldron, and Propertius says he was scorched in Venus' cruel cauldron.^(OLD 2012) In industry it is a vat, especially for dyes: Ovid has purple that has felt the Tyrian cauldron.^(OLD 2012) Valerius Maximus uses it of the bronze vessel of the oracle at Dodona.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a bronze pot and a cook's cauldron.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of a vessel's lid and of boiling must.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of cauldrons on the shore.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the dyer's vat.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|bronze]] or copper vessel; a [[m|en|cauldron]], cooking pot.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A dyer's [[m|en|vat]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[aenulum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aeneus|alt=aēneus]]

+ * [[aes]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}