herbosus Latin · revision 33893

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [hɛrˈboː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [erˈbɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''herbōsus''' (feminine herbōsa, neuter herbōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|herba|-ōsus|t1=grass, herb]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan finds no viable origin for [[m|la|herba]]: the reconstruction ⟨*gʰer-dʰ-⟩ of Walde–Hofmann and Pokorny is impossible if the root of [[m|la|grāmen|t=grass]] is ⟨*ǵʰrh₁-⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato uses it first,^(Köbler 2010) in ''De agri cultura'' of places that will not be grassy and of the grassiest straw, to be given instead of hay.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means covered with grass or plants, grassy: Horace has a grassy field, Tibullus the grassy Palatine, Propertius the grassy Apidanus, Virgil a grassy river and Ovid grassy pastures.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid also uses it of a salad of herbs.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca uses it of things like vegetation floating on water.^(OLD 2012) Later, in Sidonius, it is grass-green, of marble.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL records the spellings ''erb-'' and ''herv-''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of grassy places and straw.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a grassy river.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a grassy field.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of things like vegetation.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Covered with grass or plants, [[m|en|grassy]]; full of [[m|en|herb|alt=herbs]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Like vegetation;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(Late Latin)'' grass-green.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[herba]]

+ * [[herbāceus]]

+ * [[herbārius]]

+ * [[herbeus]]

+ * [[herbidus]]

+ * [[herbifer]]

+ * [[grāmen]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}