vectis Latin · revision 34080

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *weǵʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwɛk.tɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvɛk.tis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vectis''' ''m'' (genitive vectis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The OLD derives it from [[m|la|vehō|t=to carry]].^(OLD 2012) De Vaan connects it with an older noun ⟨*wekti-⟩ “levy, yield”, which he finds in [[vectigal|alt=vectīgal]] and which was later renewed as ⟨vectis⟩ “bar, lever”; it goes back to [[itc-pro|*wekti-]] and [[ine-pro|*weǵʰ-|t=to carry]].^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary compares [[sa|ऊढि|tr=ūḍhi]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008) who lists bars among what is needed for an oil press and uses them for ramming earth around planted trees.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a strong bar of wood or metal, especially a lever or crowbar: Caesar has the largest possible stones pushed forward with levers.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is the lever of a wine or oil press or of a windlass, and a part of a water organ.^(OLD 2012) It is also a door bar, as in Lucilius and in Virgil's hundred bronze bars that close a gate.^(OLD 2012) Vitruvius has red-hot iron bars shot from ballistas, and Pliny the Elder a kind of ploughshare shaped like a pointed bar.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin it is a stick, and also the penis.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it bolt, bar, lever, crowbar.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of oil-press bars.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 2nd century BC – Lucilius of a door bar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of levers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of bronze door bars.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A strong bar, [[m|en|lever]], [[m|en|crowbar]], handspike; a carrying pole.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The lever of a press or windlass.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A door bar, [[m|en|bolt]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A stick; the penis.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vectiārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[veho|alt=vehō]]

+ * [[vectigal|alt=vectīgal]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Vectis'', a feminine noun, is the Latin name of the Isle of Wight, in Pliny the Elder and Suetonius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}