aedicula Latin · revision 34304

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ae̯ˈdɪ.kʊ.ɫa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈdiː.ku.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aedicula''' ''f'' (genitive aediculae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions have ''aid-'' and the syncopated ''aedicla''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aedēs|-cula|t1=room, temple, (plural) house]], a diminutive.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan explains that [[m|la|aedēs]] first meant the fireplace, then the room with a fireplace and a small temple of one room, while its plural meant a house; it goes back to [[itc-pro|*aiþ-|t=fireplace]] and [[ine-pro|*h2(e)idh-|t=burning]], the root of [[grc|αἴθω|tr=aíthō|t=to burn]] and [[sga|áed|t=fire]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler find it first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) where in the ''Epidicus'' a speaker wants a woman shut away by herself in a little room.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) It means a small room.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Terence the plural is a small house,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and Cicero uses it of a set of rooms in a block of flats.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) It also named a small shrine or chapel: Cicero has an altar and an ''aedicula'' dedicated together, Livy an ''aedicula'' of Victory,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and Petronius a niche holding silver Lares.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) On tombstones it is the niche for the urn, and so a tomb.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In the Vulgate it is a chapel in a house;^(Lewis & Short 1879) medieval writers in Britain use it of a small house, a tomb, a chapel and a small religious house.^(DMLBS) Italian ''edicola'' continues it.^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a small room.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses the plural of a small house.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a shrine.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of a niche for the Lares.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of a household chapel.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small [[m|en|room]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(plural)'' A small [[m|en|house]]; a set of rooms.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A small [[m|en|shrine]], [[m|en|chapel]]; a [[m|en|niche]] for the image of a god.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A [[m|en|tomb]]; the niche for the urn in a tomb.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A small religious house.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aedēs]]

+ * [[aedifex]]

+ * [[aedificātiō]]

+ * [[aedificātiuncula]]

+ * [[aedificātor]]

+ * [[aedificātōrius]]

+ * [[aedificiālis]]

+ * [[aedificium]]

+ * [[aedificō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}