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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [mʊnˈdaː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [munˈdaː.nus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''mundānus''' (feminine mundāna, neuter mundānum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|mundus|-ānus|t1=world, universe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Etymonline notes that this ''mundus'' is identical in form with [[mundus]] “clean, elegant”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Cicero, in the Tusculan Disputations, reports that Socrates, asked what country he belonged to, answered “of the world”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) The TLL says Cicero coined it once to translate the Greek, and Köbler dates him 81–43 BC.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ As a noun in Cicero it meant a citizen of the world, a cosmopolite.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) After Cicero it is found from Apuleius on, who uses it of the revolution of the universe, and Christian writers liked it.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012) Macrobius speaks of the world-soul and of the world year of fifteen thousand years, and the Historia Augusta of a natural disaster, an earthquake.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)
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+ In Christian and medieval Latin it meant of this world, secular, human or earthly, and ''lex mundana'' was secular law as opposed to church law.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010) Medieval writers also used ''musica mundana'' for the music of the spheres.^(DMLBS) English ''mundane'' is recorded in the mid-15th century as “of this world, worldly”.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of Socrates, a citizen of the world.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of the universe.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st half of the 5th century AD – Macrobius speaks of the world year.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-15th century – English ''mundane'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Of the [[m|en|universe]], cosmic.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Of this world, worldly, secular, [[m|en|mundane]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # A citizen of the world, [[m|en|cosmopolitan]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[extramundanus]]
+ * [[ultrāmundānus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|mundane]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}