carbaseus Latin · revision 36602

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [karˈba.se.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [karˈbaː.s̬e.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''carbaseus''' (feminine carbasea, neuter carbaseum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Varro, quoted by Nonius, has ''carbasineus'', and Pliny the Elder and Apuleius ''carbasinus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|carbasus|-eus|t1=fine linen]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The noun [[m|la|carbasus]] goes back to [[grc|κάρπασος|tr=kárpasos|t=cotton]],^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) which Wiktionary traces through [[hbo|כַּרְפַּס|tr=karpás|t=fabric of cotton]] to [[sa|कर्पास|tr=karpāsa|t=cotton]], though it notes that Mediterranean and Anatolian sources have also been suggested.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who in the Verrines describes tents spread with linen awnings: ''tabernācula carbaseīs intenta vēlīs''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means made of [[carbasus]], fine linen.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil uses it of the rustling linen folds of a cloak,^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) and the poems of the Tibullan collection and Statius have it too.^(OLD 2012) In the Digest the jurist Marcian mentions dyed linen ''vēla'', cloths or sails.^(TLL)

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+ Venantius Fortunatus uses it of a linen covering.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of linen awnings over tents.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the linen folds of a cloak.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it in the ''Thebaid''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 536–c. 610 AD – Venantius Fortunatus uses it of a linen covering.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Made of fine [[m|en|linen]] (of [[m|en|sail|alt=sails]], [[m|en|awning|alt=awnings]], garments).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}