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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [eːˈnoːr.mɪs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [eˈnɔr.mis]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''ēnōrmis''' (neuter ēnōrme); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is formed from [[ex-]] and [[norma]] “carpenter's square, rule” with the adjective ending [[m|la|-is]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Quintilian uses it of an ill-fitting toga.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Quintilian c. 35–95/96 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It first meant out of rule, irregular or shapeless, as Tacitus' irregular streets of old Rome and Gellius' metrically irregular verse.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Far more often it meant abnormally large, immense, as Pliny's enormous shade of trees, Statius' huge colossus and Tacitus' huge spears and swords.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In medieval Latin it meant immoral, wicked, heinous.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''enormous'' was formed from it in the 1530s, first meaning “abnormal”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of an ill-fitting toga.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of huge shade.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of irregular streets and huge weapons.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1530s – English ''enormous'' is formed from it.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Irregular, shapeless, ''(of clothes)'' ill-fitting, ''(of verse)'' irregular.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # [[m|en|Enormous]], immense, huge.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|Wicked]], heinous.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[ēnormitās]]
+ * [[inēnormis]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[norma]]
+ * [[en|enormous]]
+ * [[en|enormity]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}