antiquarius Latin · revision 36788

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=98–115 AD, Tacitus|origins=la antīquus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [an.tiːˈkʷaː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [an.tiˈkʷaː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''antīquārius''' (feminine antīquāria, neuter antīquārium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ As a noun it is masculine, genitive ''antīquāriī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|antīquus|-ārius|t1=old, ancient]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds the noun first in Tacitus,^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''Dialogue on Orators'' doubts that anyone is so devoted to antiquity (''nec quemquam adeō antīquārium putō'') as to praise certain old orators.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Tacitus and Suetonius the noun means a devotee of the old, pre-Augustan language and literature, rather than a researcher of antiquity;^(Georges 1913) Juvenal mocks a woman who is an ''antīquāria''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Jerome uses the adjective in ''ars antīquāria'', the art of reading and copying old manuscripts,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and in the Theodosian Code, Ausonius, Augustine and later writers the noun names a copyist of such manuscripts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ In medieval Latin it simply meant a scribe or copyist of books;^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995) in Britain Aldhelm uses it of a scribe, an Old English glossary renders it ''writere'', and Orderic Vitalis tells of scribes copying the books of both Testaments for his monastery's library.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses the noun of a lover of antiquity.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it in the same sense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome speaks of the ''ars antīquāria''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 438 AD – The Theodosian Code uses it of copyists.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 639–709 AD – Aldhelm uses it of a scribe.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1120–1141 – Orderic Vitalis uses it of scribes copying the Bible.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Relating to [[m|en|antiquity]];^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) ''ars antīquāria'', the art of reading and copying old manuscripts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A student or lover of the past; especially an admirer of the archaic style in language and literature.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A [[m|en|copyist]] of old manuscripts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|scribe]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|antiquary]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}