abundans Latin · revision 32698

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=ine-pro *ud-ōr}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abundāns''' (genitive abundantis; comparative abundantior, superlative abundantissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the present participle [[der|la|abundō|t=to overflow, be plentiful]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan lists [[m|la|abundō]] under [[unda]] “wave”, which he traces to [[itc-pro|*udōr|t=water]] and [[ine-pro|*ud-ōr|t=water]], comparing [[xum|utur|t=water]] and [[grc|ὕδωρ|tr=húdōr|t=water]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotation in the OLD is Accius, of the overflowing ancient river and the rapid waves of the Inachus.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of rivers it is overflowing, in flood; of liquids copious or excessive, as of a discharge in Pliny the Elder; and of places damp, as in Vitruvius.^(OLD 2012) Suetonius uses it of letters that run over the end of a line.^(OLD 2012) With a genitive or ablative it is abounding in: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' has a man lacking virtue but abounding in good fortune, and Livy writes of the excess of pleasures that brought a longing for luxury and ruin.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian has the phrase ''ex abundantī'', as something extra.^(OLD 2012) In rhetoric Cicero calls Timaeus most abundant in matter and variety of thought, and says of an orator that he was not copious, yet not poor.^(OLD 2012) It also means wealthy: Cicero contrasts the furniture of a luxurious man with that of a wealthy one.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it rich, abundant, overflowing.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of an overflowing river.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a copious style and of wealth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of abundant pleasures.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of ''ex abundantī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of rivers, [[m|en|overflowing]], in flood; of liquids, copious; of places, damp.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Abounding (in), rich (in).^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Plentiful, [[m|en|abundant]];^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995) ''ex abundantī'', superfluously.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of style, copious, exuberant.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|wealthy|alt=Wealthy]], affluent.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abundo|alt=abundō]]

+ * [[unda]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}