aliquotiens Latin · revision 33457

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la alius, la quot}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aliquotiēns''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''aliquotiēs'';^(OLD 2012) the TLL finds that spelling well attested only in one inscription.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ali-|quotiēns|t2=how many times, as often as]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) with the stem ⟨ali-⟩ of [[m|la|alius|t=other]];^(OLD 2012) the grammarian Priscian derived it from [[m|la|aliquot|t=several]].^(TLL) De Vaan lists [[m|la|quotiēns]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|quot|t=how many]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*kʷoti]] and [[ine-pro|*kʷe/o-ti|t=how many]].^(de Vaan 2008) He takes the stem ⟨ali-⟩ of words like [[m|la|aliquis]] as shortened from that pronoun or as a quick-speech form.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL's first example is from Cato's book on farming: ''id aliquotiens in die cotidie facito'', “do this several times a day, every day”.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It always means a number of times, several times.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it in speeches and letters, and Varro, Sallust, Nepos and Livy have it often;^(TLL) Livy likes to answer it with ''ad ultimum'', ''postrēmō'' or ''tandem'', “several times …, at last”.^(TLL) It continues in Seneca, Quintilian, Suetonius and the Vulgate, and Ammianus Marcellinus uses it remarkably often, in almost ninety places, nearly in the sense of ''saepe'', “often”.^(TLL) Augustine has it several times in the ''City of God''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it in his book on farming.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in speeches and letters.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it often.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses it nearly ninety times.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it in the ''City of God''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # A number of times, [[m|en|several]] times; in Ammianus almost [[m|en|often]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aliquot]]

+ * [[quotiēns]]

+ * [[totiēns]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}