raeda Latin · revision 32900

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *reydʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈrae̯.da]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈrɛː.da]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''raeda''' ''f'' (genitive raedae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''rēda'',^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and ''rhēda'', which Lewis & Short and Georges call a false spelling, appears in Scribonius Largus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|cel-pro|*reido-]]: Quintilian names it with [[petorritum]] among the Gallic words that won a place in Latin.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Wiktionary compares the second element of [[cel-pro|*uɸoreidos|t=horse]] and traces it to [[ine-pro|*reydʰ-|t=to ride, go]], the root of [[en|ride]], [[m|en|road]] and [[m|en|raid]].^(Wiktionary) Köbler cites the same root from Pokorny.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short's first quotation is from Varro, quoted by Nonius;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a four-wheeled travelling carriage, used on journeys with family and baggage.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Caesar uses it in the ''Gallic War'', Cicero of riding in a carriage, and Horace of being taken up into a coach.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Later writers have a hired coach in Suetonius, a silver-plated coach in Lampridius, and an official one, ''raeda fiscālis'', in Sulpicius Severus; the Vulgate pairs horses and carriages.^(Georges 1913) In British Medieval Latin it is a vehicle or cart, and was also taken as the shaft of a cart.^(DMLBS) Köbler records medieval senses of ploughing and sowing service.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses the word.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar in the ''Gallic War''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of travelling in a carriage.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian calls it a Gallic word.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A four-wheeled travelling [[m|en|carriage]], [[m|en|coach]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A vehicle, [[m|en|cart]]; the shaft of a cart.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[raedārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[petorritum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}