harenosus Latin · revision 33675

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la harēna}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ha.reːˈnoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [a.reˈnɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''harēnōsus''' (feminine harēnōsa, neuter harēnōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''arēnōsus'', but ''h-'' is the usual spelling in the manuscripts.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

+ Pliny the Elder has the comparative and the superlative.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|harēna|-ōsus|t1=sand]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no etymology for [[m|la|harēna]], which also had the forms ⟨asena⟩ and, as Varro reports, a Sabine ⟨fasena⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who lists sandy among the kinds of soil.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means containing or consisting of sand, sandy:^(OLD 2012) Virgil has the sandy shore of Libya, Ovid a sandy river and sandy land.^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a neuter noun it is a sandy place, as in Sallust's plants that grow in dry and sandy ground.^(OLD 2012) Celsus uses it of a gritty bladder stone and of urine containing sand.^(OLD 2012) Köbler records it in Aldhelm and the Bible versions.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of sandy soil.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust, of sandy places.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of the Libyan shore.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of sandy urine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|sandy|alt=Sandy]], full of sand;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) as a noun, a sandy place.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Sandy in quality, gritty.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[harēna]]

+ * [[harēnātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}