vitricus Latin · revision 32699

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwiː.trɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈviː.tri.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vītricus''' ''m'' (genitive vītricī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Walde and Hofmann and Pokorny derive it from [[ine-pro|*(d)u̯i-tero-|t=second, other]], but de Vaan objects that this does not explain the long ⟨ī⟩ and has no other solution.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it first in an inscription and in Cicero,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it in his letters to Atticus and his speeches.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means a stepfather, in Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus and Suetonius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ovid's ''Amores'' it is used of Vulcan as the stepfather of Cupid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of Vulcan as Cupid's stepfather.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|stepfather]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}