litoreus Latin · revision 36521

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la lītus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [liːˈtɔ.re.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [liˈtɔː.re.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lītoreus''' (feminine lītorea, neuter lītoreum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lītus|-eus|t1=shore]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan finds the origin of the noun uncertain; he thinks the best candidate is [[ine-pro|*leit-os-|t=going]], from a root meaning to go away, so that the shore would be the place where the land ends.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Virgil,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) who writes of oaks growing on a river bank and of shore birds.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It remained a poetic word for things of the shore: Ovid has the shore myrtle, the crab and the sand of the beach,^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and it is used by Manilius, Lucan and Statius.^(TLL) Silius, Statius and Martial apply it to coastal towns, Silius to Cupra.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ammianus uses it of a voyage along the coast.^(Georges 1913)

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+ British medieval writers used it of sea sand and rocks, and also as a noun: the neuter for the seashore and the feminine for a long narrow boat suited for use near the coast.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of river-bank oaks and shore birds.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of beach sand and crabs.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius uses it of a coastal town.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus uses it of a coastal voyage.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of the [[m|en|seashore]] or a [[m|en|shore]]; living or growing on the shore (birds, crabs, trees).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Situated on the coast, [[m|en|coastal]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, neuter)'' The seashore.^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, feminine)'' A boat for use near the shore.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lītus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}