numerosus Latin · revision 4289

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [nʊ.mɛˈroː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [nu.meˈrɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''numerōsus''' (feminine numerōsa, neuter numerōsum, adverb numerōsē or numerōsiter); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|numerus|-ōsus|t1=number, rhythm]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary takes ''numerus'' back to [[itc-pro|*nomezos]], from [[ine-pro|*nem-|t=to distribute]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero, in the Orator, says the arrangement of feet makes not only verse but rhythmical prose.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Cicero it meant harmonious, rhythmical, of speech, and Columella uses it of a well-proportioned chest of an animal.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) After Augustus it meant containing many units, numerous, many, abundant, as Manilius' heaps of bronze and Pliny's mountain with many names.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant having many parts or kinds, varied, as Columella's many-bedded garden, and prolific, as Pliny's animals with many young.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Pliny calls a painter prolific and a picture with many figures ''numerōsa tabula''.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval Latin it kept the sense of containing many people or things.^(DMLBS) English ''numerous'' is recorded in the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 1st century AD – Manilius uses it of many heaps.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of a mountain with many names.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''numerous'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Rhythmical, harmonious; well proportioned.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Consisting of many; [[m|en|numerous]], abundant.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Varied, manifold.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Prolific.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[innumerosus]]

+ * [[numerōsitās]]

+ * [[numerōsē]]

+ * [[numerōsiter]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[numerābilis]]

+ * [[numerālis]]

+ * [[numerārius]]

+ * [[numerātiō]]

+ * [[numerātor]]

+ * [[numerātus]]

+ * [[numerius]]

+ * [[numerō]]

+ * [[numerus]]

+ * [[en|numerous]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}