grandaevus Latin · revision 33374

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɡranˈdae̯.wʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ɡranˈdɛː.vus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''grandaevus''' (feminine grandaeva, neuter grandaevum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|grandis|aevum|-us|t1=great|t2=age]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no convincing etymology for [[m|la|grandis]]: he rejects the comparison with [[grc|βρένθος|tr=brénthos|t=pride]], and finds that Vennemann's idea of a Vasconian substrate word shared with [[eu|handi|t=big]] needs too many ad hoc assumptions.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler record it from Lucilius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means of great age, aged, and Lewis & Short note that it is poetic and post-Augustan.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has aged Nereus and old bees, Ovid aged fathers, Propertius old oxen, and Tacitus old men;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Silius calls the Senate ''grandaeva manus'', and Pliny the Elder mentions gods who are always old and grey.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Later it is used as a noun, an old man, in the ''Ilias Latina'' and Augustine,^(Conte 2010) and figuratively of mature or serious counsel in Sedulius and Cassiodorus.^(Conte 2010) Church Latin keeps the sense of great age.^(Stelten 1995) The noun ''grandaevitās'', agedness, is older, found in Pacuvius and Accius.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of aged Nereus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of old men.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * first half of the 5th century AD – Sedulius, of mature counsel.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of great age, [[m|en|aged]], old.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Mature, [[m|en|serious]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # An old man.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[grandis]]

+ * [[aevum]]

+ * [[grandaevitās]]

+ * [[longaevus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}