reticulum Latin · revision 34763

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 200 BC, Plautus|origins=la rēte}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [reːˈtɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈtiː.ku.lum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rēticulum''' ''n'' (genitive rēticulī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rēte|-culum|t1=net]], a diminutive of the word for a net.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Etymonline describes it as a double diminutive of [[m|la|rēte]].^(Etymonline) The OLD records a masculine by-form ⟨rēticulus⟩ beside the neuter.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and Lewis & Short date it from Plautus, who speaks of hunting “with a little net in the middle of the sea”;^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Georges notes that the editors Goetz and Loewe read ''reti iaculo'' (“with a casting net”) in that line instead.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it named any small net or net-like bag for holding things: Cicero has one full of roses held to the nose, Horace a net bag of bread carried on the shoulder, Ovid a net for playing ball, Seneca a strainer for wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It was also the net that held women's hair in place, which Varro already explains as the thing “that held the hair”,^(OLD 2012) and it is worn by Fortunata in Petronius and mocked on an effeminate man in Juvenal.^(OLD 2012) Fenestella and Festus use it for some kind of undergarment.^(OLD 2012)

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+ The Vulgate also has the form ⟨rētiāculum⟩, and uses the word for the caul over the liver.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In British Medieval Latin it was a small net for fish or rabbits, a hairnet or coif, a veil against insects, and the fat around the liver.^(DMLBS) English took it in the 1650s as ''reticle'', “a little net”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for a fishing net.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro explains it as a hairnet and uses it for netting in an aviary.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero mentions a net bag full of roses.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius describes a golden hairnet.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it for the caul over the liver.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1650s – English borrows it as [[m|en|reticle]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small [[m|en|net]] or net bag for holding, carrying or confining something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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

+ # Some kind of [[m|en|undergarment]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|strainer]] or [[m|en|colander]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A net used in playing ball.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Netting or [[m|en|lattice|alt=latticework]], for example in an aviary.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' The [[m|en|caul]] or [[m|en|omentum]] over the liver.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A veil to keep off insects.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[rēticulātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|reticle]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}