omnigenus Latin · revision 35906

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la omnis, la genus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔmˈnɪ.ɡɛ.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [omˈniː.d͡ʒe.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''omnigenus''' (feminine omnigena, neuter omnigenum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|omnis|-genus|t1=all, every|t2=of a kind]], the second part from [[m|la|genus|t=birth, kind]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) The OLD and Georges also record an indeclinable ⟨omnigenus⟩, which was originally the adverbial accusative ⟨omne genus⟩, “of every kind”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The declinable adjective is first found in Virgil's ''Aeneid'', of monstrous gods of every kind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it a word of poetry and of post-classical prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it after Virgil from the 2nd century on, and notes that its genitive plural is only ⟨-um⟩.^(TLL) An inscription of AD 120 has neighbours of every kind coming together;^(TLL) Gellius and Apuleius use it of learning and of poems of every kind, and Christian poets such as Juvencus and Paulinus of Nola of beasts and flocks of every kind.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British medieval writers used it of things of every kind and, as a plural noun, of people of all classes.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil writes of gods of every kind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 120 AD – An inscription uses it of a neighbourhood of every kind.^(TLL)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of learning.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 325 AD – Juvencus uses it of tribes of every kind.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 5th century AD – Martianus Capella writes of the father of gods of every kind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of every kind, of all [[m|en|sort|alt=sorts]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, as a plural noun)'' People of all [[m|en|class|alt=classes]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[multigenus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The indeclinable ''omnigenus'', the same as ''omne genus'', is found in Accius, Lucretius, Varro and Gellius;^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) in Lucretius Lachmann reads ''omne genus'' instead.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ A separate ''omnigenus'' “all-begetting”, from ''omnis'' and ''gignō'', is used by Prudentius of God the Father.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}