commissura Latin · revision 34309

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la mittō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔm.mɪsˈsuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kom.misˈsuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''commissūra''' ''f'' (genitive commissūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|committō|-ūra|t1=to join, connect]], with the regular change of /tt/ to /ss/.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists that verb among the compounds of [[m|la|mittō|t=to send]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*meit-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*m(e)ith2-|t=to exchange, remove]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest quotation is from Cato's ''De agricultura'',^(OLD 2012) of the joint of a rope, for which three feet are reckoned.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero uses it of the wonderful joints of the bones and of the supple joints of the fingers,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Columella of the joint in a plant where new wood grows.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of the intersections of orbits, Seneca of the crossings in a knot and of the boundary between the colours of a rainbow.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian applies it to the meeting of the end of one word with the start of the next, where consonants clash.^(OLD 2012) In medieval Latin it is a carpenter's scarf joint.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of the joint of a rope.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the joints of bones and fingers.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of the junction of words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|joint]], [[m|en|juncture]] or [[m|en|seam]] where two parts meet; a joint in the body or in a plant.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # An [[m|en|intersection]]; a crossing in a knot; a dividing line.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' The meeting of the end of one word with the beginning of the next.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A patch.^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|scarf]] joint in carpentry.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[commissuralis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[committō]]

+ * [[en|commissure]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}