vitreus Latin · revision 34009

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la vitrum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwɪ.tre.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈviː.tre.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vitreus''' (feminine vitrea, neuter vitreum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription has the spelling ''vitrius''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vitrum|-eus|t1=glass]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan, following Szemerényi, derives the noun from [[itc-pro|*wedro-|t=glass]] and [[ine-pro|*ued-ro-|t=water-like]], the root of the words for water, with a parallel in Middle Iranian, where the word for glass is made from the word for water.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Varro,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) whose Menippean satires mention togas of a glassy sheen that show the stripes of the tunic beneath.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means made of glass:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca has mullets kept in glass jars, Ovid a glass piece in a board game, and Columella glass vessels.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The neuter is used as a noun for a glass article, and the plural for glassware.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) An inscription has ''ars vitrea'', the glassmaker's craft.^(OLD 2012) In poetry it means like glass in its greenish colour, clearness or glitter, above all of the sea and rivers:^(OLD 2012) Virgil has nymphs on glassy seats, Horace the glassy sea, and Columella a glassy river.^(OLD 2012) Horace and Statius call Circe ''vitrea''.^(OLD 2012) From the 1st century AD it can also be a greenish blue colour.^(Wiktionary) Stelten gives "transparent, of glass or porcelain" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of glassy togas.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of glassy seats of nymphs.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the glassy sea.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of glass jars.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Made of [[m|en|glass]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''(neuter as noun)'' a glass article;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''(neuter plural)'' [[m|en|glassware]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Like glass in colour, clearness or glitter; [[m|en|glassy]], [[m|en|translucent]], greenish.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vitreārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vitrum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}