illac Latin · revision 34219

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la ille}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪlˈlaːk]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ilˈlak]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''illāc''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|illā|-ce|t1=by that way]], the adverb [[m|la|illā]] with the particle ⟨-ce⟩;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Wiktionary explains it from the ablative of [[m|la|illic#1|t=that one]] with [[m|la|via|t=way]] understood.^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it, from Plautus on, among the adverbs formed from [[m|la|ille|t=that]], the pronoun that replaced older ⟨olle⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL record it first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) who has ''angiporto illac per hortum circuit'', “that way, through the alley and the garden, he went round”.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means by that way, along that side, in that direction.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Paired with [[hac]] it means this way and that: Terence has ''hac illac circumcursa'', and Plautus ''hac iter faciundumst, nam illac lumbifragiumst'', “we must go this way, for that way there's a broken back”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) It can also mean simply there, and figuratively Cicero writes that all the bad citizens ''illac facere'', are on that side, Caesar's.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Tertullian uses ''sive hac sive illac'', in one way or the other.^(Conte 2010)^(TLL) The TLL finds it from Plautus to Augustine, apparently not later, and notes that Gregory of Tours lacks it.^(TLL) Medieval British writers use it again for by that way and in ''hac illac'', this way and that.^(DMLBS) It is the source of Italian [[m|it|là]], French [[m|fr|là]] and Spanish [[m|es|allá]].^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a way round through a garden.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses ''hac illac'', this way and that.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''illac facere'' of taking Caesar's side.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses ''sive hac sive illac'', in either way.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # By that way, on that side, in that [[m|en|direction]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''hac illac'', ''hac atque illac'': this way and that, here and there.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # There, in that place.^(TLL)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(figurative)'' On that side;^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) ''illac facere'', to belong to that [[m|en|party]].^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # In that manner;^(TLL)^(Conte 2010) ''sive hac sive illac'', in one way or the other.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ille]]

+ * [[illā]]

+ * [[illīc#2]]

+ * [[illūc]]

+ * [[hac]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}