summe Latin · revision 33861

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsʊm.meː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsum.me]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''summē''' ^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|summus|-ē|t1=highest]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) Lewis & Short's citations begin with Cicero, of what usually troubles him most in the ''De oratore'' and of wanting something greatly in the speech for Quinctius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in the highest degree or extremely, with verbs (Cicero, Caesar, Quintilian) and adjectives, as in Cicero's ''summē iūcundum'' and Horace's ''summē mūnītus locus'', a place fortified to the utmost.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Younger even pairs it with a superlative.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Fronto uses it of doing something superlatively well.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives “highly, in the highest degree, extremely, very” for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, with verbs and adjectives.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of a strongly fortified place.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 100–170 AD – Fronto, “superlatively well”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In the highest degree, [[m|en|extremely]], intensely.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Superlatively well, [[m|en|consummately]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[summus]]

+ * [[superus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}