quartadecimani Latin · revision 33382

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=98–115 AD, Tacitus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kʷaːr.ta.dɛ.kɪˈmaː.niː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kʷar.ta.de.t͡ʃiˈmaː.ni]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''quārtadecimānī''' ''m pl'' (genitive quārtadecimānōrum); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''quartadecumānī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ Later spellings are ''quartidecimānī'' and ''quartodecimānī''.^(Du Cange 1883)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|quārtadecima|-ānus|t1=fourteenth (legion)]], from the feminine of [[m|la|quārtus decimus|t=fourteenth]] agreeing with [[m|la|legiō|t=legion]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Tacitus uses it for the men of the fourteenth legion in the ''Histories'' and the ''Annals''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Church Latin the name was given to the Quartodecimans, whom Du Cange describes as heretics, or rather schismatics, named from keeping Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon, the fourteenth of the month Nisan, as the Jews kept Passover; their Greek name was Τεσσαρεσκαιδεκατῖται.^(Du Cange 1883)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary also connects the name with the Audians, a movement of the fourth century.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of the soldiers of the fourteenth legion.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The men of the fourteenth [[m|en|legion]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The Quartodecimans, who kept [[m|en|Easter]] on the fourteenth day of Nisan, the day of the Jewish [[m|en|Passover]].^(Du Cange 1883)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[quārtus]]

+ * [[decimus]]

+ * [[legiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}