praeparatus Latin · revision 34663

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 165 AD, Aulus Gellius|origins=la parō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praeparātus''' (genitive ''praeparātūs''); masculine, fourth declension^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|praeparō|t=to prepare beforehand]], with the suffix [[m|la|-tus]] of action nouns.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) That verb is a compound of [[m|la|prae-]] and [[m|la|parō|t=to furnish, provide]],^(de Vaan 2008) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*parāje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*prh₃-o-|t=providing]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest secure use is in Aulus Gellius, who writes of preparing farm work during rainy weather, ''in praeparātū reī rūsticae''.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) The manuscripts of Velleius Paterculus give it earlier, of Caesar's preparations against Antony,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) but editors now read ''apparātus'' there.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It always kept the sense of preparation or preparations,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and Lewis and Short mark it as post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler also records it in the Itala, the early Latin Bible.^(Köbler 2010) In the Medieval Latin of Britain it still meant preparation: Gerald of Wales writes of an axe striking a deadly blow without any preparation.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 20 BC–30 AD – The manuscripts of Velleius Paterculus use it of preparations for war, a reading later editors replace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Aulus Gellius uses it of preparing farm work.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * after 220 AD – It occurs in the Itala.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The action of making ready beforehand, [[m|en|preparation]]; preparations.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[praeparō]]

+ * [[praeparātiō]]

+ * [[apparātus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The participle of [[praeparō]], ''praeparātus'', ''-a'', ''-um'', is also used as an adjective, “prepared, ready”, as in Cicero.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}