navicula Latin · revision 33278

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=2nd half of the 2nd century BC, Afranius|origins=ine-pro *neh₂-u-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nāvicula''' ''f'' (genitive ''nāviculae''); first declension^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ The contracted forms ''naucula'' and ''naucla'' also occur, in an inscription and in manuscripts of Pliny the Younger.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|nāvis|-cula|t1=ship]], a diminutive.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|nāvis]] to [[itc-pro|*nau-]] and [[ine-pro|*neh₂-u-|t=ship]], probably “the floating one”, from a verb meaning “to swim”.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|नौ|tr=náu-|t=ship]], [[grc|ναῦς|tr=naûs|t=ship]] and [[sga|náu|t=ship]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Afranius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a small ship, a boat or skiff:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero writes “we went down to our boats”, and Caesar also uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has it as a little boat.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval texts it is also the incense boat, the vessel that holds incense in church.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd half of the 2nd century BC – Afranius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of going down to the boats.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – An incense boat.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small ship, [[m|en|boat]], [[m|en|skiff]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|incense boat]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nāvis]]

+ * [[nāviculārius]]

+ * [[nāvigium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}