fictilis Latin · revision 32842

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dʰi-n-ǵʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfɪk.tɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈfik.ti.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fictilis''' (neuter fictile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|fictus|-ilis|t1=shaped, moulded]], from the past participle of [[m|la|fingō|t=to shape, mould]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fingō]] to [[itc-pro|*finge/o-|t=to knead, form]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰi-n-ǵʰ-]], the root of Oscan [[m|osc|feíhúss|t=walls]].^(de Vaan 2008) Isidore says that earthenware is so called because it is made and shaped from earth.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan dates it from Cato.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is made of clay, earthenware, terracotta: Cicero speaks of clay figures, of an earthenware statue of Summanus, and of earthenware vessels.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tibullus has clay cups and Pliny the Elder clay jars.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD also notes its use of people, as made from clay by Prometheus.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that it is used almost proverbially of the simple life of the ancients.^(TLL) As a neuter noun, mostly in the plural ⟨fictilia⟩, it is an earthenware vessel, as in Ovid and Pliny the Elder, and Livy has clay figures of the gods on temples.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it earthen, made of clay.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of clay figures and vessels.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 55–19/18 BC – Tibullus of clay cups.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Made of clay, [[m|en|earthen]], earthenware, [[m|en|terracotta]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of people, made of clay.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''fictile'', usually in the plural ''fictilia'', an earthenware vessel; a clay figure of a god.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fictiliārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fingo|alt=fingō]]

+ * [[figulus]]

+ * [[en|fictile]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}