stibadium Latin · revision 36703

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Pliny the Younger|origins=grc στιβάδιον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [stɪˈba.di.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [stiˈbaː.di.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''stibadium''' ''n'' (genitive stibadiī or stibadī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|στιβάδιον|tr=stibádion|t=couch]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) a diminutive of [[m|grc|στιβάς|tr=stibás|t=bed of straw or rushes]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in the letters of Pliny the Younger,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) for a semicircular couch.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the semicircular couch used at table.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010) Martial gives the name as the heading of an epigram,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Servius uses it in his commentary on the ''Aeneid'',^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) and Sidonius Apollinaris has it in his letters; it also appears in an inscription.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In British medieval glossaries it is a kind of table, and Osbern of Gloucester explains the form ''stipadium'' as a board on which a game is played.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it as the title of an epigram.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 400 AD – Servius uses it in his commentary on Virgil.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 431–486 AD – Sidonius Apollinaris uses it in his letters.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A semicircular [[m|en|couch]] or seat, used at table.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin, glossaries)'' A kind of [[m|en|table]]; a board for a game.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}