conexus Latin · revision 34588

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnexus''' (feminine cōnexa, neuter cōnexum); first/second-declension adjective, also spelled ''connexus''^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The adjective is the participle [[der|la|cōnectō|t=to join, connect]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|nectō|t=to bind]].^(de Vaan 2008) The origin of ⟨nectō⟩ is unclear: an old proposal takes it as a remade ⟨*nedere⟩ with the root of [[m|la|nōdus|t=knot]], which de Vaan calls a remote possibility, and he mentions as an alternative the root [[ine-pro|*h₂neḱ-|t=to reach]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it in the ''De oratore'', saying that the opening of a speech should be connected with what follows.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means joined or linked, as Virgil's bees hanging linked by their feet, and of time continuous, in Manilius.^(OLD 2012) It also means related or interdependent, in Cicero, Seneca, Pliny the Elder and Quintilian, who says that all these things are linked together.^(OLD 2012) Of persons it means bound by ties: Statius has it of love, and Tacitus of kinship by marriage.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of parts of a speech connected with each other.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of bees linked by their feet.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Manilius uses it of continuous time.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of kinship by marriage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Joined together, [[m|en|linked]]; of time, [[m|en|continuous]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Related, associated; [[m|en|interdependent]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # (of persons) Bound by ties of friendship, kinship and the like.^(OLD 2012)

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+ {{homograph|2|connection}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la nectō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnexus''' ''m'' (genitive cōnexūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The noun is [[af|la|cōnectō|-tus|t1=to join, connect]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who lists the various combinations, weights, blows, meetings and motions by which things are brought about (''varios conexus pondera plagas concursus motus'').^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short note that Lucretius uses it several times, mostly in the plural, and that it is rare elsewhere;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Vitruvius has it of the joining of warp and weft.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Köbler also cites it from Manilius.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ Medieval writers used it of any connection or union, once apparently of carnal union, of a group of letters, and of a noose.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the combinations of atoms.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of the joining of warp and weft.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A joining together, [[m|en|connection]], [[m|en|combination]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A union; a group (of letters); a [[m|en|noose]].^(MLW)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD has separate entries for the participle used as an adjective and for the fourth-declension noun.^(OLD 2012) The MLW also records a rare medieval second-declension noun ''conexus'' meaning “husband”.^(MLW)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}