subtemen Latin · revision 33090

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [sʊpˈteː.mɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [subˈtɛː.men]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subtēmen''' ''n'' (genitive subtēminis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''subtegmen''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a noun [[af|la|sub-|texō|-men|t2=to weave]], from ⟨*subteximen⟩ by way of ⟨*subtecmen⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary explains the long ⟨ē⟩ as compensatory lengthening when ⟨*-ksm-⟩ was reduced.^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|texō]] to [[itc-pro|*tekse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*teḱ-s-|t=to fashion]], cognate with [[sa|तक्षति|tr=tákṣati|t=fashions, forms]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it first in Plautus;^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates it from Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the weft, the cross threads woven in between the warp threads on a loom, in the plural or as a collective singular:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid describes the weft drawn through with the shuttle, and Varro, Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is often coloured or of gold for ornament: Virgil has robes embroidered with gold weft, and a poem in the Tibullan corpus a garment shining with Tyrian weft.^(OLD 2012) Catullus applies it to the thread spun by the Fates, in the refrain "run, spindles, drawing the threads".^(OLD 2012) It also means spun thread or yarn.^(Wiktionary) The spelling ''subtegmen'' occurs in Catullus and Valerius Flaccus and as a variant elsewhere.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of the threads of the Fates.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of gold weft.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the weft drawn through with the shuttle.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|weft]], [[m|en|woof]], the cross threads woven through the warp;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(ornamental)'' coloured or gold weft.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The thread spun by the [[m|en|Fates]]; spun thread, yarn.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[texō]]

+ * [[tēla]]

+ * [[subtīlis]]

+ * [[stāmen]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}