psyche Latin · revision 4356

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Apuleius|origins=grc ψυχή}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpsyː.kʰeː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpsiː.ke]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''psȳchē''' ''f'' (genitive psȳchēs); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ψυχή|tr=psukhḗ|t=breath, soul]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Apuleius, in the Metamorphoses, tells the story of Psyche, a maiden loved by Cupid and made immortal by Jupiter.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates Apuleius c. 125–175 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL notes that as a common noun it is found only in Greek letters, as in Cicero's letters to Atticus, and in Latin only as a proper name, which also appears in an inscription at Pompeii.^(TLL) The OLD calls Psyche an allegorical figure of the soul, above all in Apuleius' tale.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval Latin it meant the soul, as Roger Bacon explains in his Greek grammar.^(DMLBS) Wiktionary gives the senses mind and spirit.^(Wiktionary) English ''psyche'' is recorded in the 1640s as the animating spirit or mind.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius tells the tale of Psyche.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1640s – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|psyche]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(capitalized)'' Psyche, a personification of the soul loved by Cupid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The [[m|en|soul]]; mind, spirit.^(DMLBS)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[psȳchicus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|psyche]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}