auxiliaris Latin · revision 32831

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=ine-pro *h₂eug-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [au̯k.sɪ.liˈaː.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [au̯k.si.liˈaː.ris]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''auxiliāris''' (neuter auxiliāre); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription has ''auxsiliāris''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|auxilium|-āris|t1=help]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan files [[m|la|auxilium]] under [[m|la|augeō|t=to increase]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*augeje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eug-|t=to grow]], comparing [[grc|αὔξω|tr=aúxō|t=to increase]] and [[lt|áugti|t=to grow]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates the noun from Caesar.^(Köbler 2010) In the OLD's quotation from his ''Civil War'' two auxiliary cohorts are left to guard Ilerda.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is helping, assisting: in Ovid Lucina says she is a helping goddess, and Ovid also has helping waters;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucan has a helping divinity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of troops it is auxiliary, and in Tacitus it is of the auxiliaries' helmets and shields.^(OLD 2012) The plural ⟨auxiliārēs⟩ is a noun, the auxiliary troops.^(OLD 2012) Charisius reports from Pliny an ablative ⟨auxiliāre⟩.^(TLL) It is also a Roman surname.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of auxiliary cohorts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a helping goddess.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of auxiliaries' arms.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Helping, assisting; remedial.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of troops, [[m|en|auxiliary]]; of auxiliary troops.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''auxiliārēs'' (plural): auxiliary [[m|en|troops]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[auxiliārius]]

+ * [[auxilium]]

+ * [[augeo|alt=augeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}