alicunde Latin · revision 34594

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''alicunde''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ Cassiodorus records a vulgar spelling ''aliquonde''.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|*ali-|unde|t2=from where]], the first element being the one in [[aliquis]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(TLL) who has ''puellam alicunde ut reperirem sibi'', “that I should find him a girl from somewhere”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “from somewhere” of place, as Terence's ''venit meditatus alicunde ex solo loco'', “he has come having rehearsed it somewhere in a lonely place”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) It is also used of persons and things as a source: Plautus and Terence speak of borrowing from someone or other and of scraping money together from somewhere, and Cicero of seeking arguments from some outside source.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) The TLL notes that it does not occur between Cicero and Tertullian.^(TLL)

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+ Medieval writers kept it: Bede has ''si forte alicunde quid auxilii … adveniret'', “if by chance some help should come from somewhere”.^(MLW)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of finding a girl from somewhere.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of place and of borrowing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of sources of information and arguments.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * first third of the 8th century AD – Bede uses it of help coming from somewhere.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # From some place or other, from [[m|en|somewhere]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # From some source or other; from someone or other.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[unde]]

+ * [[aliunde]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}