redimiculum Latin · revision 34246

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''redimīculum''' ''n'' (genitive redimīculī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A masculine plural ''redimīculī'' and a late feminine ''redimīcula'' also occur.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is probably [[af|la|redimiō|-culum|t1=to bind round, wreathe]], an instrument noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) De Vaan notes that it is attested earlier than the verb, which Ernout and Meillet took as a sign that it was based on [[m|la|amiculum|t=cloak]] with the prefix [[m|la|red-]]; he and Wiktionary find this unlikely, because that prefix is not otherwise used to form nouns and the long vowel would be hard to explain.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The origin of [[m|la|redimiō]] is itself unclear: a link with [[sa|यम्|tr=yam-|t=to reach, obtain]] is difficult in meaning, and de Vaan suggests that the verb may be a denominative of a noun [[itc-pro|*do/em-o/i-|t=binding, band]], from [[ine-pro|*do/emh2-o/i-]], related to [[m|la|domō|t=to tame]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler record it first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it figuratively of a snare and band that would make a soldier come back.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The OLD defines it as a band hanging from the back of a headdress, usually a woman's, down to the shoulders on each side.^(OLD 2012) More widely it is any band, fillet or necklace: Cato lists ''redimicula'' among the finery of women covered in gold and purple, Lucilius among the things a woman takes out to adorn herself, and Cicero has one town pay for a woman's ''redimiculum'' and others for her neck and hair.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil mentions the bands of the mitre, Ovid the necklaces of a statue, and Juvenal uses it of effeminate men.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) Festus says that women call a little chain worn as an ornament ''redimiculum''.^(TLL) In the early Latin Bible it renders the Greek word for necklaces in the Song of Songs, and Cassian uses it of a monk's apron.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means a necklace or chaplet.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it figuratively of a band to hold someone.^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato lists it among women's finery.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a woman's headband.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 360–c. 435 AD – Cassian uses it of a monk's apron.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|band]] hanging from the back of a headdress to the shoulders.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|fillet]], [[m|en|necklace]], [[m|en|chaplet]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Figuratively, a band, bond.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A [[m|en|girdle]], apron.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[domō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}