rimosus Latin · revision 34736

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 84–c. 25 BC, Vitruvius|origins=la rīma}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [riːˈmoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [riˈmɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rīmōsus''' (feminine ''rīmōsa'', neuter ''rīmōsum''), comparative ''rīmōsior''; first/second-declension adjective^(Conte 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rīma|-ōsus|t1=crack, fissure]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds several etymologies of that noun possible, among them a root meaning “to tear, break”, and leaves its origin unclear.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Vitruvius,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of cracked plaster.^(Georges 1913) Lewis and Short also cite Propertius, of doors, and Virgil, whose ''cumba rīmōsa'' takes in much marsh water.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means full of cracks or [[m|en|fissure|alt=fissures]], and so leaky: Lewis and Short note that it belongs to poetry and to prose after Augustus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella uses it of a building, Juvenal of vessels and Gellius has the comparative of a lung.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Horace uses it figuratively of a “leaky” ear that cannot keep a secret, and Ambrose says that there is nothing ''rīmōsum'' in the soul he praises.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Medieval writers kept both uses:^(DMLBS) Aldhelm speaks of the leaky boat of a fragile wit, John of Salisbury in a letter of 1168 of a “leaky” heart, and Walter of Wimborne of the Virgin's hand that is always open to the needy.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of cracked plaster.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of an ear that cannot keep secrets.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of a leaky boat.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses the comparative ''rīmōsior''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ * 639–709 AD – Aldhelm writes of a leaky boat of the mind.^(DMLBS)

+ * 1168 – John of Salisbury uses it figuratively in a letter.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Full of [[m|en|crack|alt=cracks]], chinks or fissures; [[m|en|leaky]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|chapped|alt=Chapped]] (of skin).^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Unable to keep a secret.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[perrimosus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rīma]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}