aranea Latin · revision 33198

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈraː.ne.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈraː.ne.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''arānea''' ''f'' (genitive arāneae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the feminine of [[m|la|arāneus]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan considers a borrowing [[der|grc|ἀράχνη|tr=arákhnē|t=spider]], with Greek ⟨khn⟩ taken as ⟨gn⟩, then loss of the velar and lengthening of the vowel before it; but Greek ⟨khm⟩ became Latin ⟨cum⟩ in ⟨dracuma⟩, so the Greek and Latin words may instead have been borrowed separately from a common source ⟨*araksn-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary thinks the second scenario more likely.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, of cobwebs: in the ''Aulularia'' a house is full of emptiness and cobwebs.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As “spider” it appears first in Catullus, who has a spider weaving its thin web high up.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Catullus also says his purse is full of cobwebs.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has a spider working at its old webs, and Virgil the spider hateful to Minerva.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Servius notes that the old writers called the creature masculine ''arāneus'' and its web feminine ''arānea''.^(TLL) Pliny the Elder uses it of threads like cobwebs, into which the willow's fruit turns before it ripens.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The Vulgate has the spider's web in Job and Isaiah.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has “spider”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a house full of cobwebs.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus, of a spider weaving its web.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of the spider hateful to Minerva.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of cobweb-like threads.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, of the spider's web.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A spider's web, [[m|en|cobweb]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A mass of threads like a cobweb.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|spider]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[arāneāns]]

+ * [[arāneola]]

+ * [[arāneolus]]

+ * [[arāneōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[arāneum]]

+ * [[arāneus]]

+ * [[tēla]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}