latebrosus Latin · revision 33363

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *lh2-to-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''latebrōsus''' (feminine latebrōsa, neuter latebrōsum, comparative latebrōsior); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)

+ The second syllable is short; the TLL finds it long only in Prudentius and the ''Carmen de resurrectione''.^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|latebra|-ōsus|t1=hiding place]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|latebra]] comes from [[m|la|lateō|t=to lie hidden]];^(OLD 2012) de Vaan explains its short ⟨e⟩ by analogy with [[m|la|tenebrae|t=darkness]].^(de Vaan 2008) He takes [[m|la|lateō]] as a stative verb made from an adjective “hidden”, from [[ine-pro|*lh2-to-|t=hidden]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|λανθάνω|tr=lanthánō|t=to be hidden]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL record it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) who in the ''Bacchides'' says that a secret place does not suit this time of life: ''huic aetati non conducit latebrosus locus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means full of hiding places, giving cover, secret: Cicero speaks of a more secluded way by which someone came to watch, and Livy and Lucan use it of places and of the secret hours of night.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has nests in a pumice full of hollows, ''latebroso in pumice'',^(OLD 2012) and Church Latin also glosses it full of holes, porous.^(Stelten 1995) It also means lurking or hidden: Virgil has the hidden streams of a river's sources, Seneca a lurking serpent, and Statius the hidden lair of a nymph.^(OLD 2012) Ammianus Marcellinus uses it of hidden roads and places.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a secret place.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a secluded way.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of porous pumice and hidden streams.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus, of hidden roads.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Full of hiding places, giving [[m|en|concealment]], secret, [[m|en|secluded]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Lurking, hidden.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Full of holes, [[m|en|porous]].^(Stelten 1995)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[latebra]]

+ * [[lateō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}