acinaces Latin · revision 36838

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=grc ἀκινάκης}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈkiː.na.keːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈt͡ʃiː.na.t͡ʃes]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''acīnacēs''' ''m'' (genitive acīnacis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The accusative is ''acīnacem'' or ''acīnacēn''.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἀκινάκης|tr=akīnákēs|t=short sword of the Persians and Scythians]].^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) Beekes thinks the Greek word is perhaps an Iranian loan, but notes that the form [[m|grc|κινάκης|tr=kinákēs]] in Sophocles could point to a Pre-Greek origin instead.^(Beekes 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It first appears in Horace's ''Odes'',^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) for the short sword of the Persians and Medes.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it remained the name of an eastern weapon, the short, curved sabre of the Persians, Medes and Scythians.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Curtius uses it repeatedly in his history of Alexander,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) and Tacitus has the Greek accusative ''acīnacēn''.^(TLL)

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+ Medieval, Renaissance and scientific Latin used it for a scimitar.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it in the ''Odes''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius uses it of the Persian sword.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses the accusative ''acīnacēn''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The short [[m|en|sword]] or [[m|en|sabre]] of the Persians, Medes and Scythians.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval and New Latin)'' A [[m|en|scimitar]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}