uniter Latin · revision 36314

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ūniter''' (adverb)^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ūnus|-ter|t1=one]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces the numeral to [[itc-pro|*oino-]] and [[ine-pro|*Hoi-no-|t=one]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|οἰνή|tr=oinḗ|t=one (at dice)]] and [[sga|óen|t=one]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Lucretius,^(Köbler 2010) who writes of the parting of body and soul, “from which we are joined together as one” (''quibus e sumus uniter apti'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it a Lucretian word.^(Lewis & Short 1879) A scholiast on Juvenal still uses it,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and Georges records the superlative ''ūnissimē'', “as closely as possible”, in a letter of Severus among Augustine's letters.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of body and soul joined as one.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # So as to form one whole, [[m|en|together]], [[m|en|conjointly]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ūnus]]

+ * [[ūniō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}