sublimiter Latin · revision 36316

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la sublīmis}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sublīmiter''' (comparative sublīmius)^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sublīmis|-ter|t1=raised aloft, lofty]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cato,^(Köbler 2010) who prescribes that certain things be gathered, pounded and given while kept off the ground (''sublimiter legi teri darique oportet'').^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Later writers use it of height: Columella of flying high, and Ovid's ''Halieutica'' of a victor who raises his head higher.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Tacitus, in the ''Dialogus'', and Quintilian use it of speaking in a grander, more elevated style,^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) and Fronto has it too.^(Conte 2010) In Church Latin it means aloft or sublimely.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of things kept off the ground.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of flying high.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses the comparative of a lofty style.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses the comparative of elevated speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # On high, to a great [[m|en|height]]; so as to be raised off the ground.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # In a grand or elevated style, [[m|en|sublimely]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sublīmis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}