vehiculum Latin · revision 4205

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [weˈ(ɦ)ɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [veˈiː.ku.lum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vehiculum''' ''n'' (genitive vehiculī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|veho|-culum|t1=to carry, convey]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary allows that it may continue [[itc-pro|*weɣitlom]], from [[ine-pro|*weǵʰ-í-tlom]], which may also have given [[sa|वहित्र|tr=vahitra|t=vessel]].^(Wiktionary) Varro explained it from carrying beans or other things, or from wicker.^(Varro)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it in the Aulularia: a character asks to be given carriages to ride in.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it was a wheeled vehicle for people or goods, a wagon or cart, as in Cicero and Livy.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It was used too for ships and, in Lactantius, for an animal that carries a rider.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Augustine calls the sound of the voice the vehicle of the word.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary also records the sense of a reaping machine.^(Wiktionary)

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+ In medieval Latin it could mean a horse.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''vehicle'' came from French in the 1610s, first for a medium through which a drug is given.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of carriages.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine calls sound the vehicle of the word.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English [[m|en|vehicle]] is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A means of transport; a [[m|en|vehicle]], wagon, [[m|en|cart]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A ship or boat.^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A reaping machine.^(Wiktionary)

+ # Figuratively, a bearer, carrier.^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A horse.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vectābilis]]

+ * [[vectābulum]]

+ * [[vectārius]]

+ * [[vectātiō]]

+ * [[vectīgal]]

+ * [[vectīgāliārius]]

+ * [[vectīgālis]]

+ * [[vectiō]]

+ * [[vectitātus]]

+ * [[vectō]]

+ * [[veho|alt=vehō]]

+ * [[en|vehicle]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}