semihora Latin · revision 35735

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la sēmi-, la hōra}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sēmihōra''' ''f'' (genitive sēmihōrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sēmi-|hōra|t1=half|t2=hour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found first in Cicero's speech for Rabirius on a charge of treason, meaning “half an hour”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The word kept the one sense “half an hour”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) After Cicero it is used by Celsus in his medical work, by Petronius and in the ''Bellum Africum'',^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) and it remained in medieval Latin, as in the Miracles of Henry VI.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in a speech.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it in his medical work.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Half an [[m|en|hour]], a [[m|en|half-hour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hōra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}