adminiculum Latin · revision 32723

+ {{infobox|confidence=disputed|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *mino-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ad.mɪˈnɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ad.miˈniː.ku.lum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adminiculum''' ''n'' (genitive adminiculī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''amminiculum'', and Plautus has the syncopated ''adminiclum''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is disputed.^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan, following Walde and Hofmann and Serbat, takes it as [[m|la|ad-]] with [[itc-pro|*mino-|t=structure, support]], from [[ine-pro|*(H)mi-no-]], the root of [[moenia]] “defensive walls”, meaning “to build”;^(de Vaan 2008) Ernout and Meillet and Leumann prefer the root of [[minae]] “threats”, “protruding parts”, and [[emineo|alt=ēmineō]], and de Vaan finds the first view more likely because of the prefix.^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD compares [[sa|मिनोति|tr=minóti]] and [[m|la|moenia]].^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short and Wiktionary instead derive it from [[m|la|ad-]] and [[manus]] “hand”, with the suffix [[m|la|-culum]], as that on which the hand may rest.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the OLD find it first in Plautus,^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) in whom someone is given some relative as a prop.^(OLD 2012) De Vaan dates it from Cato.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short say it was first a vine-dresser's word for the stake to which a vine clings.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero writes that vines grasp their props with their tendrils as if with hands.^(OLD 2012) It is any prop or support: Livy has men whose very supports slip from under them as they try to rise.^(OLD 2012) Of people and things it is a support, a mainstay, as in Plautus, and in law an argument supporting a claim.^(OLD 2012) Varro uses it of tools, distinguishing men from the implements of men.^(OLD 2012) In medieval Latin it is corroborative evidence.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it support, prop, assistance.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a relative as a prop.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of tools.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the props of vines.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of supports that give way.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|prop]] for vines, a pole, stake; any prop or support.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A support, aid, mainstay;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''(law)'' an argument supporting a claim.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # An instrument, [[m|en|implement]], tool.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Corroborative evidence.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moenia]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}