abhinc Latin · revision 33719

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈa.bɪŋk]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈaː.biŋk]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

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

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|hinc|t2=from here]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first,^(Köbler 2010) in the sense “ago”: “this happened about two years ago”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its usual sense is “ago”, counting back from the present, with an accusative or ablative of time: Terence has about ten months ago, Cicero “you were quaestor fourteen years ago”, and Horace a writer who died a hundred years ago.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that apart from the comic poets it is most frequent in Cicero, in his speeches and letters.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pacuvius has it of the future, “from now on”, and Palladius and Symmachus use it so later.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Lucretius has ''aufer abhinc lacrimas'', “away with your tears”, which the OLD and Georges read as “from here”;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Lewis & Short think it only a fuller form of ''hinc''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, “ago”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius, “from now on”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, “away from here”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, “ago”, in speeches and letters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Counting back from the present, [[m|en|ago]], since.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # From now on, [[m|en|henceforth]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # From this place, [[m|en|hence]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hinc]]

+ * [[dehinc]]

+ * [[exhinc]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}