vadosus Latin · revision 34744

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=ine-pro *uh₂dʰ-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vadōsus''' (feminine vadōsa, neuter vadōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vadum|-ōsus|t1=shallow water, ford]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces that noun to [[itc-pro|*waþo-]] and [[ine-pro|*uh₂dʰ-o-]], from a root meaning “to advance”, the source also of [[m|la|vādō|t=to go]] and of the Germanic verbs for wading.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Caesar,^(Köbler 2010) who writes in the ''Civil War'' that ''erat vadōsum mare'', the sea was full of shallows.^(Conte 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It describes waters with many shallows or fords: Sallust uses it of the Syrtes, Virgil of a river, and Livy of a strait and the mouth of a harbour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder uses it of a voyage made dangerous by shoals,^(Georges 1913) and Lucan, in poetry, of restless waters.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Solinus has the superlative ''vadōsissimus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it kept the sense “shallow, fordable”:^(Niermeyer 1976) Alcuin, in a letter, sets the shallow Loire against the wide Tyrrhenian sea, and a document of 1560 from Ireland tells of a ship driven onto a shallow shore.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of a shallow sea.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of the Syrtes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil calls a river ''vadōsus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of a voyage through shoals.^(Georges 1913)

+ * c. 800 – Alcuin uses it of the river Loire.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Full of [[m|en|shallow|alt=shallows]] or [[m|en|shoal|alt=shoals]], shallow; [[m|en|fordable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # Made dangerous by shoals.^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(poetic)'' Restless (of waters).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vadum]]

+ * [[vādō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}