saturitas Latin · revision 34456

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *s(e)h₂-tu-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''saturitās''' ''f'' (genitive saturitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|satur|-tās|t1=well-fed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces the adjective to [[itc-pro|*saturo-|t=well-fed]], built on [[ine-pro|*s(e)h₂-tu-|t=satiation]], the root of [[m|la|satis|t=enough]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognates are [[sga|sáith|t=fullness]], [[grc|ἅδην|tr=hádēn|t=to one's fill]] and [[lt|sótus|t=satisfied, full]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(de Vaan 2008) meaning fullness with food and drink: in the ''Captivi'' a character recalls a door from which he often came out drunk with fullness, ''saturitate''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it mostly Early and post-Augustan, where classical prose has [[satietās]], and find it perhaps only once in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus also has a beating “till he has enough”, ''usque ad saturitatem'', and makes ''sancta Saturitas'' the goddess of a parasite.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Cicero uses it of abundance, the plenty of all things needed for life and the worship of the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of the full depth of a dye, and concretely of the droppings of young swallows.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Tertullian speaks of the plenty of Egypt, and the Vulgate uses it of fullness and abundance.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ Medieval writers in Britain use it of fullness with food, and in a spiritual sense of the fullness of heavenly joys.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of fullness with food and drink.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of abundance.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of the depth of a dye.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian speaks of the plenty of Egypt.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|fullness|alt=Fullness]], [[m|en|satiety]] with food or drink;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''(concrete)'' [[m|en|excrement]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|abundance|alt=Abundance]], plenty.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # Full depth of a colour, saturation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Spiritual fullness.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[satur]]

+ * [[satietās]]

+ * [[satis]]

+ * [[saturō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Bede distinguishes the two nouns: ''saturitas'' is said only of food, ''satietas'' of everything else.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}