momen Latin · revision 35908

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la moveō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈmoː.mɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈmɔː.men]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mōmen''' ''n'' (genitive mōminis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|moveō|-men|t1=to move]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) contracted, as the TLL and Lewis & Short put it, from an older [[m|la|*movimen]].^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of that verb, whose related [[m|la|mōmentum]] he derives from [[itc-pro|*mowe-mnto-]]; the verb itself goes back to [[ine-pro|*m(i̯)euh₁-|t=to move]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) of the heaving of the salt sea, from which, he says, many things seem able to rise.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lucretius uses it for a movement, for a trend (of the times), and for an impulse that sets something moving: the rest of the soul is moved by the will and impulse of the mind, and light things can be stirred by a small push.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) In several of these places the manuscripts read ''nōmen'' or ''nūmen'', and the TLL counts other passages, in Lucretius, the ''Aetna'', Statius and Arnobius, as conjectures only.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Manilius uses it of the course of time,^(Georges 1913) and Arnobius for weight or importance, in the phrase ''nullīus mōminis esse'', “to be of no importance”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) The epitome of Festus glosses it as ''mōmentum''.^(TLL) Osbern of Gloucester recorded it as a word for ''mōmentum'' and quoted a line he took from Ennius, which the TLL treats as a false reading.^(DMLBS)^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of the heaving sea and of an impulse.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Manilius uses it of the course of time.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 297–310 AD – Arnobius uses it for importance.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|movement]], motion;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) (figurative) a [[m|en|trend]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # An [[m|en|impulse]], push that sets something moving.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # The course of time;^(Georges 1913) a moment of time.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Weight, [[m|en|importance]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mōmentum]]

+ * [[moveō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}