centuriatus Latin · revision 32872

+ {{homograph|1|divided into centuries}}

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''centuriātus''' (feminine centuriāta, neuter centuriātum); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the past participle [[der|la|centuriō|t=to divide into centuries]], a verb formed on [[m|la|centuria|t=a group of a hundred, century]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) De Vaan derives [[m|la|centuria]] from [[m|la|centum|t=hundred]], which goes back directly to [[ine-pro|*dḱm̥tom|t=hundred]], through [[itc-pro|*kn̥tom]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL quotes Plautus: a character plans to carry off the soldier's girl that day, if his men are well drawn up in their companies.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main use is in ⟨comitia centuriāta⟩, the assembly of the Roman people that voted by centuries, recorded by Varro, and ⟨lēx centuriāta⟩, a law passed by that assembly, in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The land surveyors use it of land divided into square lots called centuriae.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of soldiers formed into companies.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of the comitia centuriata.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a law passed by the centuriate assembly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Divided into centuries; of soldiers, formed into companies.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Voting by centuries: ''comitia centuriāta'', the [[m|en|assembly]] of the Roman people that elected the higher magistrates and voted on laws;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''lēx centuriāta'', a law passed by it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of land, divided into square lots.^(OLD 2012)

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+ {{homograph|2|office of centurion}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la centuriō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''centuriātus''' ''m'' (genitive centuriātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The noun is [[af|la|centuriō|-ātus|t1=centurion]], probably formed like [[m|la|centuriōnātus]].^(TLL)^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short derive its sense “division into centuries” from the verb meaning to divide into centuries instead.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short and the OLD cite it first from Cicero, of the office of centurion.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) The TLL notes that Cicero twice has it in the plural.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the rank and post of a centurion, in Cicero and in Suetonius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Livy uses it of the division of soldiers into centuries.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) In medieval England it was used for the Anglo-Saxon hundred, a division of a shire.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the office of centurion.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of the division into centuries.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of the office of centurion.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The office of [[m|en|centurion]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A division into centuries.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The Anglo-Saxon [[m|en|hundred]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[centuria]]

+ * [[centurio]]

+ * [[centum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}