subtiliter Latin · revision 33188

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *teḱ-s-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''subtīliter''' (comparative subtīlius, superlative subtīlissimē)^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''supt-''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|subtīlis|-ter|t1=fine, precise]].^(OLD 2012) De Vaan derives [[m|la|subtīlis]] from ⟨*subtēli-⟩, formed like [[m|la|tēla|t=web on the loom]] from the root of [[m|la|texō|t=to weave]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*tekse/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*teḱ-s-|t=to fashion]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lucretius uses it of souls that could not be finely joined to bodies;^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From fineness of texture it passes to fine workmanship: Cicero's ''Lucullus'' has the claim that things so finely made could not exist without divine skill.^(OLD 2012) It is then acute in perception or judgement, as in Varro's advice to listen more acutely, minute and careful in analysis, and in rhetoric precise and logical in argument, as opposed to emotional.^(OLD 2012) Cicero says that the words of an interdict were not all examined minutely.^(OLD 2012) The jurist Gaius uses it of an interpretation that is too strict.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of fine joining.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of fine workmanship and careful argument.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of acute hearing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius, of a strict interpretation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Finely, in texture.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With fine or [[m|en|delicate]] workmanship; with subtlety.^(OLD 2012)

+ # With acute perception or judgement, keenly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Minutely, in detail; strictly, of interpretation.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' [[m|en|precisely|alt=Precisely]], with close [[m|en|logic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[subtīlis]]

+ * [[subtīlitās]]

+ * [[tēla]]

+ * [[texō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}