coheres Latin · revision 34042

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la hērēs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [koˈ(ɦ)eː.reːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koˈɛː.res]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cohērēs''' ''m'' or f (genitive cohērēdis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''cohaeres''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Inscriptions have ''coeres''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|hērēs|t2=heir]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(Köbler 2010) Cicero uses it in the speeches against Verres and in his letters.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is one who is heir together with another or others, a joint heir, masculine or feminine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace has the genitive plural ''cohērēdum'' and the phrase to be co-heir with someone, and Petronius uses it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The feminine is in the Digest.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Medieval Latin the plural ''cohērēdēs'' are co-partners in an undivided inheritance, and those who share rights in a common wood.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A joint [[m|en|heir]], [[m|en|coheir]], coheiress.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, plural)'' Co-partners in an undivided inheritance; sharers in a common wood.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[heres|alt=hērēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}