longinquitas Latin · revision 33654

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=ine-pro *dlongʰ-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫɔŋˈɡɪŋ.kʷɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [lon̠ʲˈd͡ʒiŋ.kʷi.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''longinquitās''' ''f'' (genitive longinquitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts sometimes spell it ''longiquitās''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|longinquus|-tās|t1=distant]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan thinks [[m|la|longinquus]] was formed on [[m|la|longē|t=far]], as an opposite of [[m|la|propinquus]], and traces [[m|la|longus]] to [[itc-pro|*(d)longo-]] and [[ine-pro|*dlongʰ-o-|t=long]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[non|langr|t=long]] and [[goh|lang|t=long]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Terence,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has its only use in verse; in prose it is found from Cicero, Caesar and Livy on.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of space it is distance or remoteness: Cicero writes of an army disturbed by the great distance of its lands, and of a place to which everything arrives very slowly because of its remoteness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also great extent, length: Livy's troops were alarmed less by the war than by the length of the march, and Tacitus and Florus speak of the length of a journey.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of time it is extent or duration, especially long duration;^(OLD 2012) Cicero's ''De inventione'' says that in considering time its length must be taken into account.^(OLD 2012) The plural is found only in Augustine.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of distance and of duration.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of the length of a march.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of the length of a journey.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|distance|alt=Distance]], [[m|en|remoteness]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Great extent in space, [[m|en|length]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Extent in time, [[m|en|duration]], especially long duration.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[longē]]

+ * [[longinquus]]

+ * [[longus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}