positura Latin · revision 33114

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la pōnō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''positūra''' ''f'' (genitive positūrae); first declension^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pōnō|-ūra|t1=to put, place]], built on the participle ⟨positus⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives [[m|la|pōnō]] from ⟨*po-sinō⟩ "to put down", from [[m|la|sinō|t=to let]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lucretius uses it first,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) of the order and position of the atoms that make up fire;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Bailey thought he made it up for the metre instead of ''positiō''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a position or situation: Lucretius' atoms, Gellius' position of wood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Propertius uses it of the god's arrangement of the world,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and it means arrangement or disposition, as when Gellius says a constellation was named ἅμαξα from its shape and the arrangement of its stars, like a wagon.^(OLD 2012) He also speaks of the order of words.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it in Lucretius, Propertius and Manilius and then from Gellius on, mostly in the grammarians,^(TLL) for whom it is punctuation, as in Donatus,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Niermeyer has it as a punctuation mark denoting a stop.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the position of atoms.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of the arrangement of the world.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of the arrangement of stars and of words.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|position|alt=Position]], situation, [[m|en|posture]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ # Arrangement, [[m|en|disposition]], order.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(grammar)'' [[m|en|punctuation|alt=Punctuation]];^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Niermeyer 1976) ''(Medieval Latin)'' a punctuation mark for a stop.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pōnō]]

+ * [[positiō]]

+ * [[positus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}