sonipes Latin · revision 34113

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=la sonus, la pēs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsɔ.nɪ.peːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsɔː.ni.pes]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sonipēs''' (genitive sonipedis); third-declension one-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sonus|pēs|t1=sound|t2=foot]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) [[m|la|sonus]] belongs with [[m|la|sonō|t=to sound]] and goes back to [[itc-pro|*sweno-|t=sound]] and the root [[ine-pro|*suenH-|t=to sound]];^(de Vaan 2008) [[m|la|pēs]] continues [[ine-pro|*pōd-s|t=foot]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan records it first in Lucilius,^(de Vaan 2008) who writes of a Campanian horse with a jolting trot, ''Campānus sonipēs succussor'';^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Köbler and Conte cite Accius,^(Köbler 2010)^(Conte 2010) who has ''quadripedantum sonipedum'', “of the galloping steeds”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective, “noisy-footed”, it is rare: Grattius uses it of the crowd in the rites of Isis.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) It is mostly a poetic noun for a [[m|en|horse]] or [[m|en|steed]]: Catullus, Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus use it,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil of a horse standing in purple and gold and, in the collective singular, of horses prancing over the whole plain,^(OLD 2012) and Germanicus of the winged horse above Andromeda's head.^(OLD 2012) Cicero quotes the plural ''sonipedēs'' as an example of the fourth paeon, a metrical foot.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also appears in verse inscriptions,^(Georges 1913) and medieval poets and chroniclers in Britain keep it for a horse.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of a Campanian horse.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius uses it in a tragedy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Conte 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it in poem 63.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it in the ''Aeneid''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus uses it in the ''Punica''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Making a noise with the feet, noisy-footed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(poetic)'' A [[m|en|horse]], [[m|en|steed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sonus]]

+ * [[pēs]]

+ * [[sonō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}