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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la numerus}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''numerātus''' (feminine ''numerāta'', neuter ''numerātum''); first/second-declension adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[der|la|numerō|t=to count, pay out]], used as an adjective: the past participle of that verb.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) The verb is formed from [[m|la|numerus|t=number]],^(de Vaan 2008) which de Vaan takes to be probably a thematized form of an s-stem related to [[m|la|nemus]], with the root of [[grc|νέμω|tr=némō|t=to dispense, distribute]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest quotation is from Plautus, of six hundred good coins counted out (''nummi sescenti … probi, numerati'').^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It is used of money, first as counted out or paid down, as when Gellius speaks of money said to have been given and counted out.^(OLD 2012) From this it came to mean ready money, cash: Cicero speaks of money left at home in cash (''pecunia numerata'') and of a dowry paid in cash, and Martial tells someone who likes ready money to sell his tables.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) The jurists use it of a dowry consisting of cash.^(OLD 2012)
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+ The neuter ''numerātum'' became a noun, “ready money”;^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Cicero and Livy have the ablative ''numerātō'', “in cash”, and Seneca the Elder and Quintilian use ''in numerātō habēre'' figuratively, of having something ready to hand.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of coins counted out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''pecunia numerata'' of cash.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy has ''numerato'', “in cash”.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses ''in numerato habere'' figuratively.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # ''(of money)'' [[m|en|counted|alt=Counted]] out, paid down.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)
+ # ''(of money)'' Ready, in [[m|en|cash]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # ''numerātum'': ready money, [[m|en|coin]];^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) ''numerātō'', in cash;^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) ''(figurative)'' ''in numerātō habēre'', to have ready to hand.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[numerō]]
+ * [[numerus]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}