anilis Latin · revision 33022

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la anus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈniː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈniː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''anīlis''' (neuter anīle, adverb anīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|anus#2|-īlis|t1=old woman]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who calls a superstition the mark of a weak, old-womanish mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is what belongs to or is typical of an old woman: Virgil has Dido's nurse hurry her steps with an old woman's eagerness, and Ovid an old woman's gait.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Often it is contemptuous, old-womanish, above all of superstitious credulity and old wives' tales: Cicero speaks of follies that are almost old-womanish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD also has it of a blow dealt by an old woman.^(OLD 2012) The adverb ''anīliter'' is in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it old-womanish.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of old-womanish superstition.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of an old woman's eagerness.^(TLL)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or typical of an [[m|en|old woman]]; dealt by an old woman.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Old-womanish, [[m|en|anile]]; of tales, [[m|en|old wives' tale|alt=old wives']].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[anīlitās]]

+ * [[anīliter]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[anus#2]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}