amiculum Latin · revision 33745

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈmɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈmiː.ku.lum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''amiculum''' ''n'' (genitive amiculī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A papyrus has ''amicl-''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|amiciō|-ulum|t1=to throw around, clothe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists [[m|la|amiciō]] among the compounds of [[m|la|iaciō|t=to throw]], and reports Schrijver's view that it continues ⟨*ambic-i-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) Festus explains it as a kind of garment named from its being thrown around the body.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first,^(Köbler 2010) in the ''Cistellaria'': ''amiculum hoc sustolle'', “pick up this cloak”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is an outer garment, a mantle or cloak.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero has a man wrapped in his mistress's cloak, and Nepos has a rustic double cloak.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Sallust uses it of clothing in general: a man reclined at dinner in an embroidered toga.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a cloak.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a mistress's cloak.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos, of a rustic double cloak.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust, of clothing at dinner.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An outer garment, [[m|en|mantle]], [[m|en|cloak]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(also plural)'' Clothing, dress.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[amiciō]]

+ * [[amictus]]

+ * [[pallium]]

+ * [[vestis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}