spondeus Latin · revision 4265

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Cicero|origins=grc σπονδή}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [spɔnˈdeː.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [sponˈdɛː.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''spondēus''' ''m'' (genitive spondēī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|σπονδεῖος|tr=spondeîos|t=of libations, spondee]],^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|grc|σπονδή|tr=spondḗ|t=libation]].^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline) Lewis & Short explain that the foot was named from the slow, solemn melodies sung at libations.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Other spellings are [[m|la|spondīus]] and the incorrect [[m|la|spondaeus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it of the metrical foot, and in a fragment tells how Pythagoras made a flute girl play a spondaic tune.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the metrical foot of two long syllables, and also a spondaic measure in music, as when Quintilian speaks of changing the tunes into spondees.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Apuleius uses a neuter ''spondēum'' for a vessel used in libations.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ English ''spondee'' is recorded in the late 14th century, through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the spondee.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of spondaic tunes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|spondee]], a metrical foot of two long syllables.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A spondaic measure in music.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|spondee]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}