abundantia Latin · revision 32920

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *ud-ōr}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [a.bʊnˈdan.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [a.bunˈdan.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abundantia''' ''f'' (genitive abundantiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Grammarians say it is written without ''h'', but ''habundantia'' is common in manuscripts.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|abundāns|-ia|t1=overflowing]], from the participle of [[abundo|alt=abundō]] “to overflow”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) That verb is formed from [[m|la|ab-]] and [[unda]] “wave”, which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*udōr]] and [[ine-pro|*ud-ōr|t=water]], comparing Umbrian [[m|xum|utur|t=water]] and [[grc|ὕδωρ|tr=húdōr]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''De inventione'' writes of greatness as a great abundance of power, majesty or resources.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an overflowing: Vitruvius writes of the overflow of water being caught, and Pliny the Elder of sponges squeezing out an excess of moisture.^(OLD 2012) Mostly it is a large amount of anything, plenty, in Cicero's time and Augustus' usually with a genitive, as in Cicero's abundance and plenty of all things, of leisure, of love.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also too much of something: Florus says the slave wars came from the great number of slaves.^(OLD 2012) In style it is exuberance or redundancy, as Cicero's speakers of faulty fullness such as Asia produced.^(OLD 2012) Columella uses it of an abundant yield, and Cicero of wealth, as in the lust that was in their abundance remains.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it abundance, plenty, prosperity or richness.^(Stelten 1995) English ''abundance'' appears in the mid-14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of plenty, of style, and of wealth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of an overflow of water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of an abundant yield.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 120 AD – Florus of too many slaves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''abundance''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An overflowing; an excess of liquid.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|abundance|alt=Abundance]], [[m|en|plenty]], fullness; too much, a [[m|en|superabundance]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Exuberance of style, redundancy.^(OLD 2012)

+ # An abundant yield; [[m|en|wealth]], [[m|en|affluence]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[abundo|alt=abundō]]

+ * [[unda]]

+ * [[en|abundance]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}