pannosus Latin · revision 36571

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la pannus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [panˈnoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [panˈnɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pannōsus''' (feminine pannōsa, neuter pannōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pannus|-ōsus|t1=cloth, rag]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) For [[m|la|pannus]], de Vaan sees in the similar [[grc|πῆνος|tr=pênos|t=woven cloth]] and [[goh|fano|t=cloth]] borrowings from an unknown source rather than an inherited word.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero is the first to use it, in a letter to Atticus: ''paucī pannōsī'', “a few ragged men”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Seneca joins it with ''male vestītus'', poorly dressed, and Juvenal speaks of a ragged aedile of empty Ulubrae.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) By likeness it meant looking like rags, flabby or wrinkled: Persius uses it of the filmy dregs of sour vinegar, Martial of withered breasts and Seneca of shrivelled leanness.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apuleius applies it to the poor belongings of an old woman.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Augustine uses the plural ''pannōsī'' as a noun, the ragged, opposed to those in silk.^(Georges 1913)

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+ Medieval writers used it for threadbare clothes and ragged people;^(DMLBS) Alcuin warns that Christ should not be despised in the ragged poor man.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of ragged men.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca joins it with ''male vestītus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius uses it of filmy dregs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it of withered breasts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses ''pannōsī'' as a noun.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Dressed in [[m|en|rag|alt=rags]], [[m|en|ragged]], [[m|en|tattered]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Looking like rags; [[m|en|flabby]], [[m|en|wrinkled]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Poor, wretched.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Late Latin, plural as noun)'' The ragged, the poor.^(Georges 1913)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pannositas]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}