herbidus Latin · revision 35784

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la herba}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈhɛr.bɪ.dʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛr.bi.dus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''herbidus''' (feminine herbida, neuter herbidum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|herba|-idus|t1=grass, herb]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) The TLL compares [[m|la|flōridus]], formed in the same way.^(TLL) De Vaan rejects the older reconstruction [[ine-pro|*gʰer-dʰ-]] for the noun and finds no viable alternative.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Varro's work on farming, of grassy plains.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was used of land covered with grass: Livy has grassy fields, Ovid calls Epirus grassy, Pliny the Younger describes islands grassy with reed and rush, and Ammianus grassy riverbanks.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella uses it of crops full of weeds.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of something with a grassy quality, the milk drunk in summer pastures on the mountains.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means full of grass.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of grassy plains.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of grassy fields.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid calls Epirus grassy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of weedy crops.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of milk from mountain pastures.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus writes of grassy riverbanks.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Covered with [[m|en|grass]] or other plants, [[m|en|grassy]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) full of [[m|en|weed|alt=weeds]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Having a grassy quality.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[herbido]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[herbōsus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}