concubina Latin · revision 3816

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la concumbō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔŋ.kʊˈbiː.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [koŋ.kuˈbiː.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''concubīna''' ''f'' (genitive concubīnae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|concumbō|-īna|t1=to lie with]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found in Plautus.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a concubine.^(OLD 2012) Georges describes her as a woman, such as a freedwoman, living as wife with an unmarried man when she could not legally be his wife, as distinct from the ''paelex'', a married man's mistress.^(Georges 1913) Cicero uses it in the De Oratore.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ English ''concubine'' was borrowed around 1300, also of the secondary wives of Hebrew, Greek and Roman law.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English ''concubine'' is borrowed.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|concubine]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[concubīnātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[concubinus]]

+ * [[en|concubine]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein says ''pellex'' is a married man's bedfellow seen as the wife's rival, while ''concubina'' is any woman living with a man without marriage.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}