cadus Latin · revision 32822

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc κάδος}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cadus''' ''m'' (genitive cadī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The genitive plural is often ''cadum'', as in Lucilius.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Inscriptions and glosses have a neuter ''cadum'', plural ''cada''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κάδος|tr=kádos|t=jar]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler compares a Hebrew word for a bucket.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) In the OLD's earliest quotation Plautus puts Stichus in charge of the wine jar.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a large jar for wine, mostly of earthenware, and Lucilius has a thousand jars of wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) It is also a jar for other uses, for storing food or for dye, and a funerary urn: Virgil has bones gathered and covered in a bronze jar.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary notes it as a liquid measure of three urns.^(Wiktionary) Niermeyer records the medieval sense cask.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it jug, large vessel, cask, barrel.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a wine jar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of a thousand jars of wine.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a bronze funerary urn.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A large [[m|en|jar]] for wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A jar for food or dye; a funerary [[m|en|urn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A liquid measure of three urns.^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|cask]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cadialis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}