ovile Latin · revision 33971

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *h₃eu-i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔˈwiː.ɫɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [oˈviː.le]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ovīle''' ''n'' (genitive ovīlis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ovis|-īle|t1=sheep]], the neuter of the adjective [[m|la|ovīlis]] used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|ovis]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*owi-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₃eu-i-|t=sheep]]; he notes that some scholars start from initial ⟨*h₂o-⟩ instead.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognates of the noun include [[xum|uvem|t=sheep]], [[sa|अवि|tr=ávi-|t=sheep, ram]] and [[grc|ὄις|tr=óïs|t=sheep]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato uses it first, telling the farmer to clean the cattle stall, the sheepfold and the farmyard.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a pen for sheep, a [[m|en|sheepfold]];^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Virgil has the wolf that does not prowl around the folds,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) and Ovid uses it of a fold for goats.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also the name of an enclosure in the Campus Martius where the people voted, otherwise called the Saepta: Livy has a private meeting held there.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the Vulgate it is the fold of Christ, the Church (John 10).^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives "sheepfold" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of cleaning the sheepfold.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the wolf prowling round the folds.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of the voting enclosure in the Campus Martius.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate of the fold of Christ.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A pen for sheep, a [[m|en|sheepfold]]; also a fold for goats.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An enclosed space in the [[m|en|Campus Martius]] where votes were cast, the Saepta.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The fold of Christ, the [[m|en|church]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ovis]]

+ * [[ovillus]]

+ * [[caula]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}