quinqueremis Latin · revision 33257

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʷiːŋ.kʷɛˈreː.mɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kʷiŋ.kʷeˈrɛː.mis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quīnquerēmis''' (neuter quīnquerēme); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quīnque|rēmus|-is|t1=five|t2=oar]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who has it in the ''Verrines'', ''in quinqueremi''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it is used with ''nāvis'', of a large galley, and as a feminine noun it is the galley itself, a quinquereme.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD takes it to be a ship probably with five rowers to each “room”,^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short one with five banks of oars.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it often in his naval narratives, and Pliny the Elder also has it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, in the ''Verrines''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of fleets of quinqueremes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a ship, having five oarsmen to each unit or five banks of oars.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|quinquereme]], a large [[m|en|galley]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quīnque]]

+ * [[rēmus]]

+ * [[trirēmis]]

+ * [[quadrirēmis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}