geometres Latin · revision 34654

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc γεωμέτρης}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''geōmetrēs''' ''m'' (genitive geōmetrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ A first-declension nominative ''geōmetra'' is found in an inscription, in Capitolinus and in later writers.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ Juvenal scans it with ⟨geo-⟩ as one syllable, Sidonius as two.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|γεωμέτρης|tr=geōmétrēs|t=land measurer, geometer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) The Greek word is a compound of [[m|grc|γῆ|tr=gê|t=earth, land]] and the stem of [[m|grc|μέτρον|tr=métron|t=measure]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler first records it in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who asks in the ''Academica'' how a geometer can discern things that either do not exist or cannot be told apart from what is false.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It names a [[m|en|geometer]] or geometrician, a student or teacher of [[m|en|geometry]]:^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Cicero writes that some devoted themselves wholly to the poets, others to the geometers, others to the musicians.^(Conte 2010) Quintilian discusses the word and declines to render it with a Latin term, saying he would not do violence to such names by an unbecoming change into Latin.^(TLL) Georges notes it also for a teacher of geometry in Diocletian's price edict.^(Georges 1913) From the Latin word come French [[m|fr|géomètre]], Italian [[m|it|geometra]], Spanish [[m|es|geómetra]],^(Wiktionary) and the English word, recorded from the late 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in the ''Academica'' and elsewhere.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian declines to translate it into Latin.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal lists it among a string of trades.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 15th century – English borrows it as [[m|en|geometer]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|geometer]], [[m|en|geometrician]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A teacher of geometry.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}