omnimodis Latin · revision 34177

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la omnis, la modus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''omnimodīs''' (adverb, not comparable)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|omnis|modus|t1=all, every|t2=way, manner]], a fusion of the ablative plural phrase ⟨omnibus modīs⟩, “in all ways”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Lewis & Short compare [[m|la|multimodīs]] and [[m|la|mīrimodīs]], made in the same way.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first certain author is Lucretius, who uses it several times.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) A reading ''omnimodīs'' in Plautus' Stichus (line 684), adopted by Scaliger and Lindsay for the metre, is only a correction: the manuscripts have ''omnibus modīs''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it a word of Lucretius and of Late Latin.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it often in prose from Apuleius onwards, but in poetry only in Cyprianus Gallus;^(TLL) Georges adds Ambrose and Cassiodorus.^(Georges 1913) Ancient glossaries explain it as ''omnīnō'', “altogether”.^(TLL) In Medieval Latin it meant “entirely, in every respect”, and with a negative “in no way”.^(eLexicon Polonorum)^(Du Cange 1883)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it several times.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it in the Florida.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 485–c. 580 AD – Cassiodorus has it in the Variae.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In every [[m|en|possible]] way, by all means.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # [[m|en|wholly|alt=Wholly]], entirely, altogether.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' (with a negative) in no way, not at all.^(eLexicon Polonorum)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[omnis]]

+ * [[modus]]

+ * [[multimodīs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}