conditorium Latin · revision 35899

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=23/24–79 AD, Pliny the Elder|origins=la condō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''conditōrium''' ''n'' (genitive conditōriī or conditōrī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|condō|-tōrium|t1=to put away, store; to bury]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan counts that verb among the compounds that may contain [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to put]], though in such compounds the root meaning “to give” cannot always be told apart.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Pliny the Elder,^(Köbler 2010) of a coffin or receptacle for a dead body.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It was used for a place where anything is stored: Tertullian has it in that sense, and Ammianus uses it of a storehouse for siege engines.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) More often it was a resting place for the dead: a coffin or receptacle for the body or the ashes in Pliny the Elder, Suetonius and Julius Valerius,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and a tomb or sepulchre in general in Pliny the Elder, Curtius, Petronius, Pliny the Younger and inscriptions.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) The OLD gives only the sense “tomb”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval Latin it was a repository in the papal liturgy, a tomb, and a family burial place;^(MLW) Einhard quotes an epitaph that begins ''sub hoc conditōriō situm est corpus Karolī'', “under this tomb lies the body of Charles”.^(MLW) The Ecclesiastical Latin dictionary glosses it “storeroom”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of a coffin and of a tomb.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of a tomb.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of a coffin.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it of a repository.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus uses it of a storehouse for siege engines.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|repository]], [[m|en|storehouse]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # A [[m|en|coffin]], a receptacle for a dead body or its ashes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A family burial place.^(MLW)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}