fatidicus Latin · revision 33907

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la fātum, la dīcō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fātidicus''' (feminine fātidica, neuter fātidicum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound of [[m|la|fātum|t=fate, destiny]] and the root of [[m|la|dīcō|t=to say]], with the ending ⟨-dicus⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) [[m|la|fātum]] is the participle of [[m|la|for|t=to speak]], which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*bʰeh₂-|t=to speak]].^(de Vaan 2008) Varro explained that those who were wont to speak the future by foretelling it were called ⟨fātidicī⟩.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Varro and Cicero use it first;^(Köbler 2010) Cicero in ''De natura deorum'' calls the Stoics' Providence a prophetic old woman.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means declaring destinies, prophetic.^(OLD 2012) It is used of gods and seers, as Virgil's prophetic seer, Ovid's Themis, and the prophetic god, Apollo,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) and as a noun a soothsayer, as in Cicero's ''De legibus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius has a prophetic girl and calls the Sibylline books the prophetic books.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also said of things: Pliny the Elder has thunderbolts that foretell a whole lifetime and a prophetic cave,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the ''Hercules Oetaeus'' ascribed to Seneca a prophetic oak.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro explains the name.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a prophetic old woman.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a prophetic seer.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of the Sibylline books.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Declaring destinies, [[m|en|prophetic]], [[m|en|oracular]] (of gods, seers or things).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(as a noun)'' A [[m|en|soothsayer]], prophet;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apollo.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fātum]]

+ * [[dīcō]]

+ * [[vātēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}