vectura Latin · revision 33857

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *weǵʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [wɛkˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [vekˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vectūra''' ''f'' (genitive vectūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vehō|-ūra|t1=to carry]], built on the participle stem ⟨vect-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|vehō]] to [[ine-pro|*weǵʰ-e/o-|t=to carry]], cognate with [[sa|वहति|tr=váhati|t=carries, conveys]] and [[xum|arveitu|t=let him add]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it in the ''Mostellaria'', of a price paid for two doorposts, carriage not included.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the carrying of goods or passengers, by land or by sea:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro has horses fit for carrying loads and says that roads and nearby rivers make a farm more profitable by giving means of transport.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero sends someone to pay for carriage in a letter to Atticus,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Seneca uses it of the fare paid for a passage by sea.^(OLD 2012) The Digest speaks of the carriage of goods.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Medieval Latin it is a compulsory transport service.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of carriage of goods.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of means of transport.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of payment for carriage.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of a passenger's fare.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Carrying, conveyance, [[m|en|transport]] (of goods or passengers, by land or sea); means of transport.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The money paid for carriage, passage money, [[m|en|fare]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A compulsory transport service.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vehō]]

+ * [[vector]]

+ * [[vectō]]

+ * [[vehiculum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}