candens Latin · revision 33012

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=ine-pro *knd-ro-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''candēns''' (genitive candentis, comparative candentior); third-declension one-termination adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the present participle [[der|la|candeō|t=to shine, be white, glow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*kand-ē-|t=to shine]] and [[ine-pro|*knd-ro-|t=shining]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first quotation is from Ennius' tragedies, of the sun that raises its shining torch in the sky.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is shining, bright, clear, as Cicero's bright full moon, and resplendent, as Virgil's Phoebus;^(OLD 2012) Apuleius uses it of gold coins glittering with newness.^(OLD 2012) It is white or near white, as Varro's white-bodied bull, Lucretius' white milk and Virgil's white cows.^(OLD 2012) Especially of iron it is red-hot, glowing: Cicero tells of Dionysius, who feared the barber's razor and singed his hair with a glowing coal.^(OLD 2012) Of liquids it is boiling hot, as Columella's hot water, and of weather hot, as in Manilius.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it red-hot, glowing, burning.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of the shining sun.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of a white bull.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the full moon and of a glowing coal.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of boiling water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Shining, bright; resplendent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|white|alt=White]], whitish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|red-hot|alt=Red-hot]], [[m|en|glowing]];^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995) ''(of liquids)'' boiling hot.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[candeo|alt=candeō]]

+ * [[candidus]]

+ * [[candor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}