localis Latin · revision 4184

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɫɔˈkaː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [loˈkaː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''locālis''' (neuter locāle, adverb locāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|locus|-ālis|t1=place]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Terentius Scaurus quotes Varro for ''adverbium locale'', an adverb of place, and the TLL says it is perhaps found in Varro and certainly from Scaurus, Caper, Ulpian and Tertullian on.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In grammar it meant relating to place, as the adverbs of place in Charisius and Servius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Lewis & Short call it late Latin in the general sense “of a place, local”, as Tertullian's contrast of the local and the universal and Ammianus' local hardships.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Firmicus Maternus uses the neuter plural ''localia'' for localities, and the adverb ''localiter'' means “locally”.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In medieval Latin it meant restricted to a place, of rules and of officials in a locality, and as a noun a building plot.^(DMLBS)^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in [[es|lugar]] and [[pt|lugar]] “place”.^(Wiktionary) English ''local'' is recorded in the late 14th century, first in medicine of what is confined to one part of the body.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro speaks of an ''adverbium locale''.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it of what is local.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus uses it of local hardships.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''local'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(grammar)'' Relating to place, ''adverbia localia'', adverbs of place.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Of a place, [[m|en|local]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A building plot.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[illocalis]]

+ * [[localitas]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[locus]]

+ * [[en|local]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}