carnarium Latin · revision 33473

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la carō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''carnārium''' ''n'' (genitive carnāriī or carnārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|carō#2|-ārium|t1=meat, flesh]], a noun for a place where something is kept.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs [[m|la|carō#2]] as [[itc-pro|*kerō(n)]] and [[ine-pro|*k(e)rH-n-|t=piece]], and compares [[osc|carneis]] and [[xum|karu]], used of a part of the assembly.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in the ''Captivi'', of a place where meat is kept.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it is a meat rack or larder, where meat was hung or smoked;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Petronius uses it figuratively of a heap of corpses.^(Conte 2010)^(Wiktionary) In Medieval Latin it was a grave holding several bodies,^(Niermeyer 1976) and in Britain a shambles and a charnel house or the chapel that went with it, glossed in a 1460 document with English ''charnelhows''.^(DMLBS) Niermeyer also gives the sense “game bag”,^(Niermeyer 1976) and it survives in Italian ''carnaio'', “heap of bodies”;^(Conte 2010) Italian ''carniere'', “game bag”, came from it through Provençal.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a meat store.^(Conte 2010)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of a heap of corpses.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1030–1045 – Radulfus Glaber uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1296 – A chapel in a charnel house at Malmesbury.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A meat [[m|en|rack]] or [[m|en|larder]]; a smoke chamber for meat.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Figuratively, a heap of [[m|en|corpse|alt=corpses]].^(Conte 2010)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A common grave; a [[m|en|charnel house]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|shambles]] (meat market).^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A game bag.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[carō#2]]

+ * [[caruncula]]

+ * [[carnifex]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}