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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈsɛn.tɪs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɛn.tis]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''sentis''' ''m'' or f (genitive sentis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
+ Columella has the accusative ''sentim''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ It is feminine in the ''Culex'' and the ''Nux''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The origin is uncertain.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The OLD tentatively compares [[grc|ξαίνω|tr=xaínō|t=to card, comb]],^(OLD 2012) and Wiktionary and Köbler connect it with Pokorny's root [[ine-pro|*ksen-|t=to scratch, comb]], an extension of [[m|ine-pro|*kes-]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary relates it to [[m|la|sentus|t=thorny, rough]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is any thorny bush or shrub, a briar or bramble,^(OLD 2012) usually in the plural ''sentēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it mostly poetic and note that Cicero does not use it, though a decree of the senate quoted by Frontinus lists trees, vines, briars and thorns.^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''Sentis canis'' was probably a kind of wild rose.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein distinguishes the synonyms: ''dūmī'' are bushes growing thickly together like a wilderness, ''sentēs'' prickly bushes that wound, and ''veprēs'' both at once.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st century AD – Columella, with the accusative ''sentim''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A thorny bush, [[m|en|briar]], [[m|en|bramble]] (usually in the plural).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''sentis canis'': probably a kind of wild [[m|en|rose]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[sentōsus]]
+ * [[sentus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[vepris]]
+ * [[dūmus]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}