atriensis Latin · revision 32792

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la ātrium}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ātriēnsis''' ''m'' (genitive ātriēnsis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ātrium|-ēnsis|t1=hall, atrium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) in whose ''Casina'' and ''Poenulus'' it is the steward who runs the household.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the overseer of the atrium and generally of the house, the steward or major-domo.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero has it only twice, once of a man who is both cook and steward.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also a slave working under the steward: Cicero says that in a large household some slaves, such as the ''ātriēnsēs'', think themselves finer, yet are still slaves.^(OLD 2012) Inscriptions record stewards of individual households, among them one of Livia, and Suetonius mentions the room of the Palatine steward struck by lightning.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) A gloss explains it as ⟨scopariī⟩, sweepers.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of the steward of a house.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a steward and of house servants.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of house servants who set out the furniture.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The servant in charge of a household, [[m|en|steward]], [[m|en|major-domo]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A house slave working under the steward.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[atrium|alt=ātrium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}