multimodis Latin · revision 33601

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [mʊɫˈtɪ.mɔ.diːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [mulˈtiː.mo.dis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a contraction of the phrase [[m|la|multīs modīs|t=in many ways]], from [[m|la|multus|t=much, many]] and [[m|la|modus|t=way, manner]];^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) the OLD compares [[m|la|omnimodīs]].^(OLD 2012) Cicero notes that the Romans of old often shortened words for brevity and said the phrase without the /s/ of its first word.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|modus]] to [[itc-pro|*medo-|t=measure]] and [[ine-pro|*med-o-|t=measure]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) The TLL finds it in early Latin, in the comic and tragic poets and Lucretius, and again from Fronto on.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in many ways, variously.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL notes that it was out of use in Cicero's time:^(TLL) Lewis & Short call it very rare, and Madvig rejected it in a passage of Cicero's ''De finibus'' where some editors read it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It reappears from Fronto on.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 100–170 AD – Fronto and later writers revive it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In many ways, [[m|en|variously]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[multus]]

+ * [[modus]]

+ * [[omnimodīs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}