saltuosus Latin · revision 36777

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86–34 BC, Sallust|origins=la saltus#2}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''saltuōsus''' (feminine saltuōsa, neuter saltuōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|saltus#2|-ōsus|t1=forest pass, woodland pasture]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Gaffiot 2016) The suffix forms adjectives meaning “full of”, so the word describes country full of wooded valleys and glades.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Sallust,^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) who uses it of wooded terrain in the ''Jugurtha'' (''loca saltuosa'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it remained a word for terrain: Livy, Nepos, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder apply it to places, regions and valleys covered with woods and glens.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Ammianus Marcellinus still writes of travelling ''per saltuōsōs trāmitēs'', by paths through the forest.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Medieval writers in Britain, among them William of Malmesbury and Orderic Vitalis, used it of heavily wooded country, often with a suggestion of wild and untamed land.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust describes wooded ground with it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it in his history.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos applies it to a region.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it in the ''Annals''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus speaks of forest paths.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(of terrain)'' Full of [[m|en|woodland|alt=wooded]] valleys and [[m|en|glade|alt=glades]]; well-wooded, [[m|en|woody]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Heavily wooded and wild.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}