urbanitas Latin · revision 32749

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la urbs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ʊrˈbaː.nɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [urˈbaː.ni.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''urbānitās''' ''f'' (genitive urbānitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|urbānus|-tās|t1=of the city]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives [[m|la|urbānus]] from [[urbs]], whose origin is debated; he reports Driessen's derivation from [[itc-pro|*worf-(i-)]] and [[ine-pro|*u(o)rbʰ-(i-)|t=enclosure]], first an enclosed area for taking the auspices, compared with [[xum|uerfale]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in his defence of Roscius speaks of Chrysogonus being drawn by people's learning and refinement.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first the qualities of a city-dweller, polish or refinement, and life in the city: Cicero tells a friend to put away his longing for Rome and city life.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is refinement of style, marked by elegance and brevity, and in a narrower sense wit: Cicero says that abuse thrown insolently is called railing, but thrown wittily, urbanity.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note a bad sense as well, of city tricks.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it urbanity, good breeding, courtesy, and in Medieval Latin it was the right of citizenship.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of refinement, city life and wit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Life in the city, city life.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The manners of a city-dweller, refinement, [[m|en|politeness]], [[m|en|urbanity]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Refinement of style; elegance of humour, [[m|en|wit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The right of [[m|en|citizenship]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[urbānē]]

+ * [[urbānus]]

+ * [[urbicus]]

+ * [[urbs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}