granarium Latin · revision 36476

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la grānum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɡraːˈnaː.ri.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ɡraˈnaː.ri.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''grānārium''' ''n'' (genitive grānāriī or grānārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is usually plural, ''grānāria''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ Medieval spellings include forms beginning with ''gre-'' and ''ger-''.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|grānum|-ārium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The noun [[m|la|grānum|alt=grānum|t=grain]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*grāno-]] and [[ine-pro|*ǵrh2-no-|t=which has ripened, fruit, grain]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Truculentus'', for a [[m|en|granary]].^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It kept the one sense of a storehouse for grain throughout Latin.^(OLD 2012)^(Niermeyer 1976) Varro, who also has the singular, advises keeping wheat in raised granaries through which the wind can blow,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Columella, Pliny the Elder, Vitruvius, Palladius, Cicero, Horace and Persius also use the word.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ It lives on in Italian [[m|it|granaio]].^(Conte 2010) English borrowed the plural as [[m|en|granary]] in the 1560s, and had earlier taken [[m|en|garner]] in the late 12th century from Old French, which goes back to this word.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the ''Truculentus''.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato mentions granaries in his work on farming.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro advises on building granaries.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses the plural.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 12th century – English takes ''garner'' through Old French.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1560s – English borrows the plural as ''granary''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|granary]], a storehouse for grain (usually in the plural).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|granary]]

+ * [[en|garner]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}