statura Latin · revision 34017

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''statūra''' ''f'' (genitive statūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|stō|-ūra|t1=to stand]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Georges 1913) Lewis & Short connect it with [[status]] and take its first sense as "an upright posture".^(Lewis & Short 1879) The verb goes back to [[itc-pro|*sta-ē-je/o-|t=to stand]] and [[ine-pro|*sth₂-eh₁-ie/o-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who describes a man of fitting stature and one not tall.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the height of the body standing upright, stature.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero asks what face and what stature a certain man had, and speaks of how well the body's shape, form and stature suit nature.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' wants a lyre player whose stature suits his dignity, and Caesar has men of such small stature.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Columella extends it to the size of cattle and to the height of a shoot.^(Georges 1913) Medieval Latin keeps the sense of a man's height,^(Niermeyer 1976) and British sources also use it of other things' height and, figuratively, of a lofty position.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a man's stature.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a person's stature.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of cattle and plants.^(Georges 1913)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of a tall man.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The height of the body standing upright, [[m|en|stature]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The size of an animal or the height of a plant.^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Height or extent of a thing;^(DMLBS) ''(figurative)'' a lofty position.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[staturosus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[status]]

+ * [[statuō]]

+ * [[en|stature]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}