muliebriter Latin · revision 33615

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [mʊ.liˈɛ.brɪ.tɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [mu.liˈɛː.bri.ter]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|muliebris|-ter|t1=womanly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan takes [[m|la|muliebris]] to show that [[m|la|mulier|t=woman]] was originally an s-stem; the further origin of the noun is disputed.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''Tusculan Disputations'' urges that we do nothing in a slavish or womanish way: ''ne quid serviliter muliebriterve faciamus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in the manner of a woman, like a woman,^(OLD 2012) and, of the conduct of a man, in a way thought more fitting for a woman, effeminately,^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) as in Cicero's warning against bearing pain in a womanish way.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of conduct unworthy of a man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In the manner of a woman, like a woman.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of a man's conduct: [[m|en|effeminately]], in a womanish way.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[muliebris]]

+ * [[mulier]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}