ubinam Latin · revision 33578

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *kwu-dhi}}

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ubī|-nam|t1=where]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|ubī]] to [[itc-pro|*kwu-þ/fei|t=where]] and [[ine-pro|*kwu-dhi|t=where]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|puf|t=where]] and [[sa|कुह|tr=kúha|t=where]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Mercator'' asks ''ubinam est is homo gentium?'', “where in the world is that man?”^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates it from Tertullian.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an emphatic interrogative, where in the world? wherever?,^(OLD 2012) often with ''gentium'': Cicero exclaims in the first speech against Catiline ''ubinam gentium sumus?'', “where in the world are we?”^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also stands in indirect questions, as when Cicero cannot see where a steady mind could find a footing.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is treated with [[ubi]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a man who cannot be found.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, ''ubinam gentium sumus?''^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Where in the world? [[m|en|wherever]]?;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''ubinam gentium'', where on earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ubi]]

+ * [[nam]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}