admonitus Latin · revision 32938

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''admonitus''' ''m'' (genitive admonitūs); fourth declension^(OLD 2012)

+ Apart from one passage of Martianus Capella, only the ablative ''admonitū'' is found.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|admoneō|-tus|t1=to remind]], a verbal noun of the fourth declension.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) That verb is [[m|la|ad-]] with [[m|la|moneō|t=to remind]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*moneje-]] and [[ine-pro|*mon-eie-|t=to make think of, remind]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who says that places remind us more keenly of famous men.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of reminding, a reminder, and also being reminded, remembrance, as Ovid's mind that flees at the reminder.^(OLD 2012) It is advice, prompting or instigation: Cicero wrote books for Varro at Atticus' prompting, and sent a praetor at the prompting of the Allobroges.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) He also uses it of a word of command that turns a beast with a light touch.^(OLD 2012) It is a warning of danger, as the warning of the soothsayers.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of reminders, advice and warnings.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of remembrance.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|reminding]], [[m|en|reminder]]; remembrance.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|advice|alt=Advice]], prompting, instigation; a word of command.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A [[m|en|warning]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[admoneo|alt=admoneō]]

+ * [[admonitio|alt=admonitiō]]

+ * [[moneo|alt=moneō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''admonitus, -a, -um'' is also the perfect participle of [[admoneo|alt=admoneō]], reminded or warned.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}