triticeus Latin · revision 36747

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *terh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [triːˈtɪ.ke.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [triˈtiː.t͡ʃe.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trīticeus''' (feminine trīticea, neuter trīticeum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the by-form ''trīticeius''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trīticum|-eus|t1=wheat]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan lists [[m|la|trīticum]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|terō|t=to rub, thresh]], which he traces to [[ine-pro|*terh₁-|t=to rub]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it in the form ''trīticeius'', in the ''Casina''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) De Vaan and Köbler date the usual form from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of wheat chaff (''paleae triticeae'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Varro uses it of wheat bran,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Virgil and Ovid of the wheat harvest and the wheat crop,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Columella of wheaten bread and meal.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It continued in the Vulgate and in Venantius Fortunatus.^(Georges 1913)

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+ In British Medieval Latin Bede has wheat flour cooked in milk; it was also said of mills used for wheat and of land sown with it.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses the by-form ''trīticeius''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of wheat chaff.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the wheat harvest.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate speaks of the wheat harvest.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 8th century – Bede uses it of wheat flour.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of [[m|en|wheat]], [[m|en|wheaten]]; made of or consisting of wheat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' (of a mill) Used for grinding wheat;^(DMLBS) (of land) sown with wheat.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}