ferramentum Latin · revision 32927

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [fɛr.raːˈmɛn.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [fer.raˈmɛn.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ferrāmentum''' ''n'' (genitive ferrāmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ferrum|-mentum|t1=iron]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan takes [[m|la|ferrum]] as a loanword from an unidentified source, possibly a Phoenician dialect, comparing the Phoenician and Syriac words for iron.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) where a well is dug with iron tools.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is any implement or tool of iron, or shod or pointed with iron, especially farm tools such as hatchets and sickles.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the land surveyors it is the iron base that holds the [[m|en|groma]], and the whole surveying apparatus.^(OLD 2012) Köbler finds it in many medieval sources, laws, capitularies and charters.^(Köbler 2010) Church Latin glosses it iron tool.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of digging tools.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An iron [[m|en|implement]] or [[m|en|tool]], especially a farm tool.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(surveying)'' The base holding the groma; the whole apparatus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ferrāmentārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ferrum]]

+ * [[ferreus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}