internuntius Latin · revision 33981

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪn.tɛrˈnuːn.ti.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [in.terˈnun.t͡si.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''internūntius''' ''m'' (genitive internūntiī or internūntī); second declension^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|inter-|nūntius|t1=between|t2=messenger]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs [[m|la|nūntius]] as ⟨*nountio-⟩ and finds its further origin unclear: some derive it from a root [[ine-pro|*neuH-|t=to cry]], others from [[m|la|novus|t=new]], but the second makes no sense morphologically.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in whose ''Miles Gloriosus'' someone asks whether they should dare to act as go-between from a freedwoman.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a person who carries messages between two parties, a messenger or go-between:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Caesar has messengers sent back and forth, Livy an agent and servant of the whole affair, and Curtius a go-between for peace.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Gaius explains that contracts can be made between absent parties by letter or through a messenger.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also used of priests as go-betweens of god and man: Cicero calls the augurs interpreters and messengers of Jupiter.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The feminine ''internūntia'' appears in Plautus and in Cicero, who has birds as messengers of Jupiter, and Pliny the Elder uses it of doves.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apuleius has a neuter ''internūntium'' for the organs of sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is an internuncio.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a go-between.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the augurs as Jupiter's messengers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of messengers sent back and forth.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of an agent.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|messenger]] between two parties, a [[m|en|go-between]], [[m|en|intermediary]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An intermediary between gods and men, of priests.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' An [[m|en|internuncio]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[internūntia]]

+ * [[internuntium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nūntius]]

+ * [[nūntiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}