crepido Latin · revision 33378

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc κρηπίς}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [krɛˈpiː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kreˈpiː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''crepīdō''' ''f'' (genitive crepīdinis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κρηπίς|tr=krēpī́s]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The OLD calls the Latin ending unexplained.^(OLD 2012) It is related to [[m|la|crepida|t=sandal, sole]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) In the Verrines a pirate galley comes up to all the quays of the city: ''piraticus myoparo ad omnis crepidines urbis accessit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is a raised base supporting a building, statue or altar, a foundation or pedestal,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) as for an obelisk in Pliny and an altar in the Vulgate;^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it figuratively of a long period that holds up a sentence like a base.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) It is also a raised footway beside a street;^(OLD 2012) a retaining wall, embankment or quay, as in Cicero, Vitruvius, Curtius and Tacitus;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) a projecting ledge or rim in Varro and Vitruvius;^(OLD 2012) the edge of a height or of a path, a brink;^(OLD 2012) and a projecting rock or spur, as the high rock to which a ship is moored in Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Georges notes that idlers and beggars hung about on the quays.^(Georges 1913) A medical writer uses it for a fracture.^(Conte 2010) Medieval Latin used it for a bubo, a projecting part of a building, and, by confusion with ''crepitūdō'', a cleft or ravine.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the quays of a city.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of a projecting ledge.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a projecting rock.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of the base of an obelisk.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A raised [[m|en|platform]] supporting a building, statue or altar; a [[m|en|foundation]], [[m|en|pedestal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A raised footway beside a street, a [[m|en|sidewalk]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A retaining wall, [[m|en|embankment]], [[m|en|quay]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # A projecting ledge or rim.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # An overhanging edge, [[m|en|brink]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A projecting rock or hill, a [[m|en|spur]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(medicine)'' A [[m|en|fracture]].^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|bubo]]; a projecting part of a building; a cleft, ravine.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[crepida]]

+ * [[crepidārius]]

+ * [[crepidātus]]

+ * [[crepidula]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}