honorifice Latin · revision 34398

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la honōrificus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''honōrificē''' (comparative honōrificentius, superlative honōrificentissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is an adverb, [[der|la|honōrificus|t=conferring honour]], formed with [[m|la|-ē]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) The adjective is made from [[m|la|honōs|t=honour]] and [[m|la|-ficus]], from [[m|la|faciō|t=to make, do]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan finds no etymology for [[m|la|honōs]] beyond the observation that its ⟨hon-⟩ can only go back to [[ine-pro|*ǵʰon-]] or [[m|ine-pro|*gʰon-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler first records it in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks in the Verrines of someone received with honour (''honōrificē acceptus'') and in the ''Philippics'' of praising someone and answering honourably.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means with [[m|en|honour]] or respect, of receiving, treating, answering, naming or writing to someone in a way that does them honour.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) Cicero uses the comparative and superlative too: he could not have been treated more generously or more honourably, and a letter was written most honourably.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Livy uses it of honours not shown publicly or privately, and Suetonius of receiving someone with honour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) In medieval British Latin it means reverently and with ceremony, as when Alcuin in 801 urges that companions behave honourably in religion, dress and church order.^(DMLBS) It could also mean in a way that confers honour and, of victory, honourably.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of receiving and treating someone with honour.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ * 59 BC–AD 17 – Livy uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 801 – Alcuin uses it of conduct in religious ceremony.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # With [[m|en|honour]] or respect, honourably, [[m|en|respectfully]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Reverently, solemnly, with due ceremony.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}