supellex Latin · revision 32973

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *leǵ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊˈpɛl.leːks], [sʊˈpɛl.lɛks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [suˈpɛl.leks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''supellē̆x''' ''f'' (genitive supellē̆ctilis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''supp-'';^(OLD 2012) Festus cites a nominative ''supellectilis'', and the ablative is ''supellectile'', less often ''supellectilī''.^(OLD 2012) The nominative ''supellectilis'' is also in Eutropius and Salvian.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It seems to come from [[super]] and [[lego|alt=legō]] “to gather”, with the other cases influenced by an adjective stem in ⟨-ili-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary sets up an unattested [[m|la|*superlegō]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|legō]] to [[itc-pro|*leg-e-]] and [[ine-pro|*leǵ-e/o-|t=to collect]], comparing [[grc|λέγω|tr=légō|t=to collect, count; speak]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who has a furrier's kit, and plays on a woman's ''supellex'' as her loud shouting.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the furnishings of a house, furniture and household goods, used only in the singular; a title of the ''Digest'' deals with legacies of it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also the outfit needed for a calling: Varro wants the farm equipment listed in town and country, Livy has tents and military gear, Seneca a doctor's great outfit, and an inscription names an official in charge of camp equipment.^(OLD 2012) Transferred, sometimes in scorn, it is a person's stock of ideas, words and qualities: Cicero never saw such a rich outfit in an orator, Seneca calls the Ideas Plato's own furniture, and Quintilian has a copious store of words gathered by reading.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it furniture, household goods and apparatus,^(Stelten 1995) and in Medieval Latin it is the produce of an estate.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a furrier's kit.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of farm equipment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an orator's stock.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of a store of words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The furnishings of a house, [[m|en|furniture]], household goods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The outfit needed for a calling, [[m|en|paraphernalia]], equipment.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A person's stock of words, ideas or qualities.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The [[m|en|produce]] of an estate.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[supellectilārius]]

+ * [[supellē̆cticārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lego|alt=legō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}