consanguineus Latin · revision 32992

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁ésh₂-r}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kõː.saŋˈɡʷɪ.ne.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kon.saŋˈɡʷiː.ne.us]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsanguineus''' (feminine cōnsanguinea, neuter cōnsanguineum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Lucretius has the genitive plural ''cōnsanguineum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|sanguineus|t2=of blood]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sanguis|t=blood]] to [[itc-pro|*sangwen-]] and the oblique stem of [[ine-pro|*h₁ésh₂-r|t=blood]], comparing [[hit|ešhar|t=blood]].^(de Vaan 2008) Isidore explained that blood relatives are so called because they are sprung from one blood, that is from one father's seed.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotations in the OLD are in Plautus' ''Poenulus'', where someone forbids another to speak unjustly to his kinsmen, and in Pacuvius.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Accius.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means related by blood, and as a noun a blood relation, kinsman.^(OLD 2012) More narrowly it is brotherly or sisterly, mostly in poetry: Ovid has the shades of brothers.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a noun it is a brother or sister: Cicero writes of the brother of “our ox-eyed one”.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses it of things closely akin.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin uses the noun for a cousin and the plural for kindred.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of kinsmen.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius, related by blood.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of things akin.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a brother.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, brotherly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Related by blood, [[m|en|kindred]], [[m|en|consanguineous]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(as a noun)'' a blood relation, [[m|en|kinsman]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of a brother or sister, brotherly, sisterly;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(as a noun)'' a brother, a sister.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of things, closely associated, akin.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cōnsanguinitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sanguineus]]

+ * [[sanguis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}