ephebus Latin · revision 33098

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=grc ἔφηβος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛˈpʰeː.bʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈfɛː.bus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ephēbus''' ''m'' (genitive ephēbī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἔφηβος|tr=éphēbos|t=adolescent]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) The Greek word is made from [[m|grc|ἐπί|tr=epí|t=on, at]] and [[m|grc|ἥβη|tr=hḗbē|t=youth, puberty]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terence uses it first, in the ''Andria'' and the ''Eunuchus'';^(Lewis & Short 1879) the ''Andria'' has the phrase ''excessit ex ephēbīs'', “he left the ranks of the youths”, that is, came of age, after the Greek idiom, and Cicero quotes it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a Greek youth at the age of puberty;^(OLD 2012) in Athenian law, the OLD notes, a young man between 18 and 26,^(OLD 2012) while Lewis & Short give 18 to 20.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero, Horace, Ovid and Suetonius use it,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Statius has the contracted genitive plural ''ephēbum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives "page, youth between 16 and 21" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995) The English [[m|en|ephebe]] comes from the Greek.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of a young man coming of age.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero quotes Terence's phrase.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius has the genitive plural ''ephēbum''.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1690s – The English [[m|en|ephebe]] appears.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A Greek youth at the age of [[m|en|puberty]], [[m|en|adolescent]]; in Athenian law, a young man between 18 and 26.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|page]], a youth.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ephēbicus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|ephebe]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}