fabrilis Latin · revision 35818

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la faber}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [faˈbriː.lɪs], [fabˈriː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [faˈbriː.lis], [fabˈriː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fabrīlis''' (neuter fabrīle, adverb fabrīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|faber|-īlis|t1=craftsman, smith]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) [[m|la|faber]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*fafro-]]; de Vaan tentatively derives it from [[ine-pro|*dʰHbʰ-ro-|t=craftsman]], with a cognate in an Armenian word for “smith”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the OLD first find it in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) who in a letter to Atticus speaks of a craftsman's error, a mistake made by the workman.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) De Vaan dates it from Varro.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It describes whatever belongs to a worker in wood, stone or metal: a smith's bellows and a carpenter's chisel in Livy, the god of fire rising to the work of his forge in Virgil, a craftsman's hand in Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012) Vitruvius uses it for craftsmanlike skill, and Celsus and Pliny the Elder for the glue used by craftsmen.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a noun, ''fabrīlia'', it meant a craftsman's work or tools, as in Horace.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Stelten 1995) In Pliny the Elder and Apicius it also describes things dried in the smoke of a forge.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Medieval writers used it for the smith's craft and tools: Bede speaks of the blows of the smith, and British sources list smiths' tools such as hammers.^(DMLBS)^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero speaks of a craftsman's error.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the work of the forge.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it for craftsmanlike skill.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy mentions a carpenter's chisel.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or belonging to a workman or [[m|en|artisan]]; of a smith, carpenter or builder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Craftsmanlike, skilled.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(neuter plural as noun)'' A craftsman's work or tools.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Dried in the smoke of a [[m|en|forge]].^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fabrīliter]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}