splendide Latin · revision 33338

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *splnd(h)-eh1-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''splendidē''' (adverb); comparative ''splendidius'', superlative ''splendidissimē''^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|splendidus|-ē|t1=shining, splendid]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) [[m|la|splendidus]] comes from [[m|la|splendeō|t=to shine]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*splnd/þē-]] and [[ine-pro|*splnd(h)-eh1-|t=to be manifest]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|sluindid|t=to express, declare]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it of someone travelling abroad in splendid style: ''dum splendide peregrinatur''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of outward show it means splendidly or brilliantly.^(OLD 2012) Of style it is with distinction: Cicero wants a speaker to talk simply and splendidly, like the men who established the laws, without meagre wrangling over words.^(OLD 2012) In a moral sense it is finely or nobly, as in Cicero's ''On Old Age'', of those who have used the rewards of authority well.^(OLD 2012) Of rank it means highly: Seneca speaks of many men of the most splendid birth whom fortune brought low.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of fine speech and noble conduct.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of high birth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|splendidly|alt=Splendidly]], brilliantly, magnificently.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ # Of style: with distinction.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Finely, [[m|en|nobly]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of rank: highly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[splendidus]]

+ * [[splendeō]]

+ * [[splendor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}