honorificus Latin · revision 33214

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la honōs, la faciō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [hɔ.noːˈrɪ.fɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [o.noˈriː.fi.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''honōrificus''' (feminine honōrifica, neuter honōrificum, superlative honōrificentissimus, adverb honōrificē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|honor|-ficus|t1=honour|t2=making, doing]], from the root of [[m|la|faciō|t=to make, do]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan finds no etymology for [[m|la|honōs]] beyond a root ⟨*ǵhon-⟩ or ⟨*ghon-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first,^(Köbler 2010) including the comparative and superlative.^(TLL) He says that someone never mentioned him except in honourable terms.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is “conferring or showing honour”.^(OLD 2012) Cicero speaks of the most honourable distinctions he had given someone, of a speech that honoured its subject, and of a consul who was both respectful to him and a pleasant friend.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Nepos has the comparative, and Velleius tells how Clodius removed Cato from Rome under the most honourable title of a mission.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Quintilian reports that Domitius Marsus divided serious sayings into honorific, insulting and neutral.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has “honourable, honorary, respected”.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|honorific]] came from it in the 1640s, through French or directly.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of honourable mention and honourable distinctions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos has the comparative.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 1640s – English [[m|en|honorific]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Conferring or showing [[m|en|honour]], [[m|en|honorific]], [[m|en|honourable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of persons, showing respect to someone.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inhonōrificus]]

+ * [[perhonōrificus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[honor]]

+ * [[honōrō]]

+ * [[honestus]]

+ * [[faciō]]

+ * [[en|honorific]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}