frondosus Latin · revision 33280

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=la frōns}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [frɔnˈdoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [fronˈdɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''frondōsus''' (feminine frondōsa, neuter frondōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Old Latin also spelled it ''frundōsus'',^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Ennius has the genitive ''frondōsāī''.^(TLL)

+ The comparative ''frondōsior'' is in Silius Italicus.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|frōns|-ōsus|t1=foliage]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The origin of [[m|la|frōns]] is unclear: de Vaan doubts a comparison with [[grc|θρόνα|tr=thróna|t=herbs, flowers]], which needs an extra suffix, and allows that the Greek and Latin words could come from the same Mediterranean substrate word.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Ennius,^(de Vaan 2008) in whom a whole grove resounds with the roar of the leafy wood, ''omne sonabat arbustum fremitu silvai frondosai''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means abounding in foliage, leafy.^(OLD 2012) Varro has leafy mountains, Virgil a leafy hilltop and a vine, and Ovid a leafy branch;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil also speaks of leafy summer.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is simply leafy.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius, of a leafy wood.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of leafy mountains.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a leafy hilltop and vine.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Abounding in [[m|en|foliage]], [[m|en|leafy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[frōns#1]]

+ * [[frondeō]]

+ * [[frondēscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}