commenticius Latin · revision 34590

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔm.mɛnˈtiː.ki.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kom.menˈtiː.t͡ʃi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''commentīcius''' (feminine commentīcia, neuter commentīcium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''commentītius''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|commentus|-īcius|t1=devised]], from the participle of [[m|la|comminīscor|t=to devise, invent]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|con-]] and ⟨miniscor⟩, related to [[meminī|alt=meminī]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) in whose works it is most frequent;^(Lewis & Short 1879) he uses it of a fabricated charge (''crimen commenticium'') and of Plato's imaginary state.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its senses run from “devised for a particular purpose”, as Cicero says of the swerve of the atoms, to “fabricated, fictitious” and “imaginary”, as of invented and fictitious gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius uses it of newly devised shows as opposed to the traditional ones, Gellius of contrived frauds, and the jurists of a rule that rests on legal construction.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ In medieval Latin it kept the senses “devised” and “false”, and the neuter was used as a noun for a fiction or lie: Aldhelm speaks of refuting the philosophers' fabrications.^(MLW)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a fabricated charge, of Plato's imaginary state and of fictitious gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of newly devised shows.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of contrived frauds.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 639–709 AD – Aldhelm uses the neuter plural for the philosophers' fabrications.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1007 – A letter from Mainz speaks of syllogisms that are not invented.^(MLW)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Invented or devised for a particular purpose, special, [[m|en|improvised]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|fabricated|alt=Fabricated]], [[m|en|fictitious]], false.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Based on the imagination, [[m|en|imaginary]], fanciful.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, neuter)'' A [[m|en|fiction]], fabrication, lie.^(MLW)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}