saetiger Latin · revision 33450

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la saeta, la gerō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsae̯.tɪ.ɡɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɛː.ti.d͡ʒer]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''saetiger''' (feminine saetigera, neuter saetigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''sētiger''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|saeta|-ger|t1=bristle]], with the second part from [[m|la|gerō|t=to carry, bear]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces the noun to [[itc-pro|*saitā-]] and [[ine-pro|*séh₂i-to-|t=cord]] (or [[m|ine-pro|*sh₂éi-to-]]); most handbooks connect it with a root meaning “to bind”, which Schrijver thinks unlikely in meaning, but de Vaan points out that this root has many words for “strap” and “cord”, and that “cord” could easily become “hair”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found first in Lucretius,^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008) who has ''saetigerīs subus ācre venēnumst'', “it is a sharp poison to bristly swine”.^(Conte 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A poetic word,^(Lewis & Short 1879) it is mostly an epithet of swine, in Lucretius, Virgil and Ovid,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and is also applied to a herd and, in inscriptions, to boars.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Ovid and Martial use the masculine as a noun, “the bristly one”, the wild boar,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) as does Seneca: ''strāvit Ancaeum violentus ictū saetiger'', “the savage boar struck Ancaeus down”.^(OLD 2012) Paulinus of Nola calls a garment of goats' hair ''saetigera vestis''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of swine.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it in the ''Aeneid''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses the masculine as a noun for the boar.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of a boar in the ''Medea''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it as a noun.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|bristly|alt=Bristly]], covered with coarse hair or [[m|en|bristle|alt=bristles]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Of a garment, made of goats' hair.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(poetic)'' The [[m|en|wild boar]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[saeta]]

+ * [[gerō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}