porrectus Latin · revision 34386

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''porrēctus''' (feminine porrēcta, neuter porrēctum, comparative porrēctior); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the perfect participle [[der|la|porrigō#1|t=to stretch out]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|por-|t=forth]] and [[m|la|regō|t=to direct, stretch]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan derives from [[itc-pro|*reg-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*h3reǵ-e/o-|t=to stretch, direct]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The earliest example in the OLD is in Plautus (c. 250–184 BC), with the comparative: a speaker wants to be talked to with a smoother, unruffled brow (''porrectiore fronte'').^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical prose and poetry it means stretched out, extended: Columella has oxen with long flanks and horns long and high, Pliny the Elder fish swimming in a long line, Tacitus a battle line that would be too extended, Horace a place not spread out over plains, and Ovid a long-drawn-out delay.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Seneca contrasts the round stars with the elongated comets,^(OLD 2012) and the land surveyors use ''pes porrectus'' for a linear foot as against a square one.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) The neuter ''porrēctum'' became a noun for length or extent (Pliny) and a straight line (Vitruvius); ''in porrēctum'' is “in a straight line” in Apicius and in the jurist Gaius.^(Georges 1913) Later Ammianus uses it of a long plain.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses the comparative of an unruffled brow.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of land spread out over plains.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of the long flanks and horns of oxen.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–AD 65 – Seneca calls comets elongated.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus uses it of a long plain.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Stretched out, [[m|en|extended]], long.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # [[m|en|elongated|alt=Elongated]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of measures)'' [[m|en|linear|alt=Linear]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(of the brow)'' Smoothed out, [[m|en|unruffled]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(neuter, porrēctum)'' Length, extent; a straight line.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Georges and Conte also record a ''porrectus'' that is the participle of [[porriciō]], Conte with a query.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}