cenatio Latin · revision 33126

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=4 BC–65 AD, Seneca|origins=itc-pro *kert(e)snā-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [keːˈnaː.ti.ɔ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [t͡ʃeˈnat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''cēnātiō''' ''f'' (genitive cēnātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''caenātiō'' and ''coenātiō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cēnō|-tiō|t1=to dine]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb comes from [[m|la|cēna|t=dinner]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*kert(e)snā-|t=meal]], with cognates in [[osc|kersnu|t=meal]] and [[xum|śesna|t=meal]]; the traditional view takes it from a root meaning to cut, a cut portion becoming a meal, though Schrijver doubts the semantics.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It appears in post-Augustan prose:^(Lewis & Short 1879) the TLL's citations start with Seneca, of dining rooms closed off with awnings and windows of mica.^(TLL) Lewis & Short note that it literally means an eating or dining, but is found only as the room.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a dining hall or dining room in Seneca, Columella, Pliny the Elder, Petronius, Suetonius' account of Nero's palace, Juvenal, Martial and Pliny the Younger's description of his villa.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In British Medieval Latin Wyclif uses it figuratively of a spiritual dining.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of a dining room.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – Wyclif, of a spiritual meal.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|dining room]], dining hall.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Dining (figuratively).^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cēnātiuncula]]

+ * [[concēnātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cēnō]]

+ * [[cēna]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}