duodecimus Latin · revision 33734

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [du.ɔˈdɛ.kɪ.mʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [du.oˈdɛː.t͡ʃi.mus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''duodecimus''' (feminine duodecima, neuter duodecimum); first/second-declension numeral^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts of Caesar, Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Tacitus also have ''duodecumus''.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

+ An inscription has ''dodecimus''.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|duodecim|t=twelve]], its ordinal,^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) formed after [[m|la|decimus|t=tenth]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cato.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is “twelfth”, and ''pars duodecima'' or ''duodecima'' alone is a twelfth part.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it a common word in Caesar, who has the twelfth legion many times, and Tacitus uses it of a legion too.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The neuter ''duodecimō'' is an adverb, “for the twelfth time”, of a consul in the ''Historia Augusta''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In Church Latin it keeps the sense “twelfth”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato has the word.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of the twelfth legion.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a legion.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Numeral===

+ # [[m|en|twelfth|alt=Twelfth]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''pars duodecima'', or ''duodecima'' alone: a twelfth part.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[duodecim]]

+ * [[decimus]]

+ * [[duodēnī]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The adverb ''duodecimō'', “for the twelfth time”, is the neuter ablative.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}