emendatus Latin · revision 33125

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēmendātus''' (feminine ēmendāta, neuter ēmendātum); comparative ēmendātior, superlative ēmendātissimus; first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the perfect participle [[der|la|ēmendō|t=to correct, free from faults]], used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) That verb is made from [[m|la|ē-]] and [[m|la|mendum|t=fault, blemish]], for which de Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*m(e)ndo-]], perhaps cognate with [[sga|mennar|t=blemish]]; any deeper root is only a theoretical possibility.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it in the ''Laelius'' of faultless character, in the ''Brutus'' of correct, pure Latin speech, and in the ''Academica'' of works corrected and perfected.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means without flaw, correct or perfect, said of speech and style (Cicero, Quintilian), works of art and books (Pliny the Elder, Quintilian), and even water.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of people and their conduct it means blameless, as in Horace's man happy to be called wise and faultless, the elder Seneca, Apuleius and Ulpian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It has a comparative and superlative, and the adverb ''ēmendātē'', faultlessly, is used of speaking and writing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL also records a rare fourth-declension noun meaning correction, in a work ascribed to Rufinus.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of faultless character and correct speech.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of a blameless man.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of correct style.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Without flaw or [[m|en|blemish]], correct, perfect, [[m|en|faultless]] (of speech, writing, works).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Morally blameless, of good character.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēmendō]]

+ * [[mendum]]

+ * [[ēmendātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}