tabernaculum Latin · revision 4277

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la taberna}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ta.bɛrˈnaː.kʊ.ɫũː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tabernāculum''' ''n'' (genitive tabernāculī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|taberna|-culum|t1=hut, booth]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Festus explained that tents were named from their likeness to [[m|la|tabernae|t=booths]], which were once built of planks.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it of a tent set up on the shore and in the Campus Martius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it was a tent, of soldiers, generals or kings, as Caesar's troops striking their tents.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In religious language ''tabernāculum capere'' was said of an augur setting up a tent to take the auspices.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it figuratively of those who pitched the tent of their life in philosophy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In the Bible it rendered [[grc|σκηνή|tr=skēnḗ|t=tent]] for the Hebrew tabernacle.^(Wiktionary) In medieval Latin it was a canopy over an altar, and the Feast of Tabernacles was ''sollemnitas tabernaculorum''.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) Köbler adds the medieval senses of a coffin and the body as the seat of the soul.^(Köbler 2010) English ''tabernacle'' is recorded in the mid-13th century as the portable sanctuary of the Israelites.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a tent and of the augur's tent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of soldiers' tents.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of the tabernacle.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-13th century – English ''tabernacle'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|tent]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # An augur's tent for taking the auspices.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' The [[m|en|tabernacle]] of the Israelites.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A canopy, ciborium.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[tabernāculārius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[taberna]]

+ * [[tabernārius]]

+ * [[en|tabernacle]]

+ * [[en|tavern]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}