aestuarium Latin · revision 33289

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *h₂eidʰ-tu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ae̯s.tuˈaː.ri.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [es.tuˈaː.ri.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aestuārium''' ''n'' (genitive aestuāriī or aestuārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aestus|-ārium|t1=heat, tide]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|aestus]] to [[itc-pro|*aissu-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eidʰ-tu-|t=burning, heat]].^(de Vaan 2008) Isidore of Seville also derives it from the tide.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Varro mentions a book he wrote on estuaries, ''in libro quem de aestuariis feci'';^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Caesar.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an inlet of the coast covered by the sea at high tide, a tidal opening or marsh;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) a gloss in Festus defines estuaries as all places where the sea comes in and goes out by turns.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of a river estuary, the mouths of the Baetis.^(OLD 2012) Vitruvius uses it of an air shaft dug beside a well.^(OLD 2012) In medieval Latin it means a hearth, a room with a hearth, or a stove.^(Niermeyer 1976) It continues in French [[m|fr|étier]] and Spanish [[m|es|estero]].^(TLL) English [[m|en|estuary]] was borrowed in the 1530s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro writes a book on estuaries.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius, of an air shaft.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of a river estuary.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|estuary]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An inlet covered by the sea at high tide, a tidal [[m|en|marsh]] or opening;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) a river [[m|en|estuary]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An air [[m|en|shaft]], a vent.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|hearth]], a room with a hearth;^(Niermeyer 1976) a stove.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aestus]]

+ * [[aestās]]

+ * [[en|estuary]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}