bimaris Latin · revision 36603

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=ine-pro *mor-i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈbɪ.ma.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈbiː.ma.ris]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''bimaris''' (neuter bimare); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|bi-|mare|-is|t2=sea]], “having two seas”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|mare]] to [[itc-pro|*mari-|t=sea, lake]] and [[ine-pro|*mor-i-|t=sea, lake]], a word that named any large body of water.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|muir|t=sea]], [[lt|mãrės]] and [[goh|mari|t=sea, lake]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Horace,^(Köbler 2010) who in an ode speaks of the walls of Corinth between two seas: ''bimarisve Corinthī moenia''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was above all an epithet of Corinth and its isthmus, and Lewis and Short call it a favourite word of Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Seneca's ''Oedipus'' and Statius use it the same way,^(OLD 2012) and Rutilius Namatianus applies it to a coast and Ausonius to the Pyrenees.^(Georges 1913) Georges gives the Greek equivalents [[m|grc|διθάλασσος|tr=dithálassos]] and [[m|grc|ἀμφιθάλασσος|tr=amphithálassos]].^(Georges 1913) Lucan uses it more loosely, of a tide connected with two seas.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Ausonius also uses it figuratively, in an epigram, of a taste for unnatural vice.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of Corinth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of Corinth and of the Isthmus.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it in his ''Oedipus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 310–394 AD – Ausonius uses it of the Pyrenees and, figuratively, of a vice.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Lying between two [[m|en|sea|alt=seas]], washed by two seas (of [[m|en|Corinth]] and its [[m|en|isthmus]]).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of or connected with two seas.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Of a [[m|en|vice]]: unnatural.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}