flumineus Latin · revision 35894

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Ovid (43 BC–AD 18)|origins=ine-pro *bʰleuH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [fɫuːˈmɪ.ne.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [fluˈmiː.ne.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flūmineus''' (feminine flūminea, neuter flūmineum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|flūmen|-eus|t1=river]], “of a river”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The noun [[m|la|flūmen]] is formed from [[m|la|fluō|t=to flow]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*bʰleuH-|t=to flow (over)]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first author is Ovid,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) who uses it of the swan as the “river bird”.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The word belongs to poetry:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Silius and later poets use it of river water and waves, of sedge, elms and alders growing by the water, and of river birds.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Silius applies it to a fleet built for crossing a river.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the writings of the land surveyors the neuter plural ''flūminea'' is a noun for the ground a river takes up.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Sedulius calls the baptism of Christ a ''flūmineum lavācrum''.^(TLL) Medieval writers used it for what belongs to a river and for animals living in or by rivers,^(MLW) and British glossaries explain it with Old English words for floods and waters.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–AD 18 – Ovid uses it of the swan and of river water.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius uses it of a fleet for crossing a river.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st half of the 5th century AD – Sedulius uses it of the baptism of Christ.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a [[m|en|river]]; in or beside a river.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Living in or by a river.^(Georges 1913)^(MLW)

+ # ''(neuter plural as noun, land surveying)'' The ground taken up by a river.^(Conte 2010)^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}