vulgatus Latin · revision 34405

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [wʊɫˈɡaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [vulˈɡaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vulgātus''' (feminine vulgāta, neuter vulgātum, comparative vulgātior, superlative vulgātissimus, adverb vulgātē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''volgātus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the participle [[der|la|vulgō#2|t=to make public, spread abroad]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb is formed from [[m|la|vulgus|t=the common people]], which de Vaan thinks may go back to [[itc-pro|*wolgo-]] or [[m|itc-pro|*welgos-]], with no further etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is in Plautus,^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Epidicus'' has ''nil moror vetera et vulgata verba'', “I don't care for old and common words”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means common, ordinary or popular: Cicero uses it in his ''Aratea'' of a constellation's common name, and Columella, Lucan and Pliny the Elder of ordinary things; in the jurists it describes regular, ordinary legal rules.^(OLD 2012) It also means well known: Livy speaks of the more widely told version of a story, Ovid of a shepherd's well-known loves, and Gellius has ''vulgatum est'', it is common knowledge.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Of prostitutes it means open to all, as in Livy and Valerius Maximus.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It can be disparaging, banal or commonplace, as in Fronto and Gellius, and also means widely occurring, as when Celsus calls an illness of the stomach very common.^(OLD 2012) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means common, usual, public.^(Stelten 1995) In Late Latin it described the popular edition of the Bible, ''vulgata editio'', and English [[m|en|Vulgate]], from about 1600, comes from Medieval Latin ''Vulgata''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of common words.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a constellation's common name.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses the comparative of a widely told story.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses the superlative of a very common illness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1600 – English [[m|en|Vulgate]] comes from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|common|alt=Common]], [[m|en|ordinary]], popular; of legal rules, regular.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Well known, celebrated;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) ''vulgatum est'', it is common knowledge.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Of prostitutes, open to all, common.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # [[m|en|banal|alt=Banal]], [[m|en|commonplace]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Widely occurring, frequent.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vulgātē]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate fourth-declension noun ''vulgātus'', -ūs, “a making known, publishing”, is found in Sidonius.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}