nodosus Latin · revision 33329

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=2nd half of the 1st century BC, Moretum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nōdōsus''' (feminine nōdōsa, neuter nōdōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|nōdus|-ōsus|t1=knot]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs [[m|la|nōdus]] as [[ine-pro|*nōdo-|t=knot]], also possible as [[m|ine-pro|*noHdo-]] or [[m|ine-pro|*neh3do-]], but calls its root etymology uncertain and allows a loanword.^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[non|nót|t=net]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from the ''Moretum''.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means tied into many knots, full of knots, as Ovid's knotted hunting nets and the Medusa whose hair is knotted with snakes;^(OLD 2012) Apuleius uses it of knotted, twisted letters guarded from the curious.^(OLD 2012) Horace calls the lawyer Cicuta ''nodosus'', one who ties people up with legal formulas.^(OLD 2012) Of problems it means knotty, hard to solve, as in Seneca's letters.^(OLD 2012) It is also full of knobs, gnarled, as Ovid's knotty stick, Lucan's neck bones and Seneca's branches, and of limbs knotty or sinewy, as shoulders and arms in Statius;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) of grasses it means full of joints, as the reed in Persius.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd half of the 1st century BC – The ''Moretum''.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of a lawyer tying people up in formulas.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of knotted nets and a knotty stick.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of a knotty problem.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Full of [[m|en|knot|alt=knots]], knotted.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of problems: [[m|en|knotty]], hard to solve, intricate.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Full of knobs, [[m|en|gnarled]]; of limbs, sinewy; of grasses, jointed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nōdōsitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nōdō]]

+ * [[nōdōsē]]

+ * [[nōdulus]]

+ * [[nōdus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}