aquilo Latin · revision 32828

+ {{infobox|confidence=disputed|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=la aquila}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aquilō''' ''m'' (genitive aquilōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ De Vaan, following Cohen, derives it most straightforwardly [[af|la|aquila|-ō|t1=eagle]], the cold north wind being personified as a fast, aggressive bird of prey.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The OLD derives it instead from [[m|la|aquilus|t=dark]], and Lewis & Short offer that adjective, for the stormy weather it brings, or [[m|la|aqua|t=water]], for the wet.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan thinks the eagle itself may have been named from ⟨aquilus⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) In the OLD's earliest quotation Ennius has the south wind and the north wind vying to raise the waves.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the north wind, and more precisely in Vitruvius the north-north-east wind, between the north and the east.^(OLD 2012) Personified it is Boreas: Cicero mentions the story that the north wind carried off Orithyia at Athens.^(OLD 2012) As a point of the compass it is the north: Varro says that Europe lies to the north.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it north wind.^(Stelten 1995) In New Latin it is also the kite.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of the north wind raising waves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of Boreas and Orithyia.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of the north-north-east wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|north wind]]; more precisely, the north-north-east wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The north wind personified, [[m|en|Boreas]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The [[m|en|north]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(New Latin)'' A [[m|en|kite]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[aquilonalis]]

+ * [[aquilonigena]]

+ * [[aquilōnius]]

+ * [[euroaquilō]]

+ * [[aquilōnāris]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aquila]]

+ * [[aquilus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}