macellum Latin · revision 34064

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc μάκελλον}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''macellum''' ''n'' (genitive macellī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A masculine ''macellus'' also occurs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|μάκελλον|tr=mákellon|t=enclosure, market]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler takes the Greek word to be probably of Semitic origin.^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary rejects the idea that it is a diminutive of [[macula]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who sets the market hall beside the provision market in the ''Amphitruo''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a provision market, where meat, fish and vegetables were sold, and by extension the provision dealers or the trade;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Manilius uses it of the provisions sold there.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein distinguishes it from ''laniēna'', the butcher's stall where the butcher sells jointed meat: the ''macellum'' is the market where the [[macellarius|alt=macellārius]] sells all kinds of meat, poultry and fish.^(Döderlein 1874) Martial has a masculine ''macellus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin uses it of a market or meat market,^(Stelten 1995) and Medieval Latin of the shambles, a butcher's stall or a butcher's shop.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of the provision market.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Manilius of the provisions sold.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial has the masculine ''macellus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A provision [[m|en|market]], meat market; the provision dealers, the trade.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Provisions sold in the market.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The [[m|en|shambles]]; a butcher's stall or shop.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[macellārius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}