rete Latin · revision 4923

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈreː.tɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈrɛː.te]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rēte''' ''n'' (genitive rētis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ There is also a masculine or feminine ''rētis'', and Plautus has the ablative ''rētī''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*rēti-]], of uncertain origin.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Niedermann suggested an original masculine *rētis with a neuter plural, from which ''rēte'' was formed back.^(de Vaan 2008) Schrijver rejects the old link with [[rārus]] “thin”.^(de Vaan 2008) A connection with [[lt|rėtis|t=sieve]] is possible, and Wiktionary also mentions a Semitic loan, comparing [[he|רֶשֶׁת|tr=rešet|t=net]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it: a fisherman has caught nothing but what he carries in his net.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it was a net for fishing, hunting or fowling, as in Varro, and a net for enclosing or protecting.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Figuratively it was a snare or trap, as in Plautus, Lucretius and Propertius.^(Gaffiot 2016) Döderlein calls it the general word for nets, against ''cassēs'' and ''plagae'', hunting nets.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In medieval Latin it was also a spider's web and an ambush.^(DMLBS) English ''rete'', ''reticule'' from [[rēticulum]] and the New Latin sense “the Internet” come from it.^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary) It survives as [[it|rete]], [[fr|rets]] and [[es|red]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a fishing net.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses ''rēticulum''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – English ''rete'' is recorded for a part of an astrolabe.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1801 – English ''reticule'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|net]] (for fishing, hunting, fowling).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A net for enclosing or protecting.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|snare]], trap.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(New Latin)'' The [[m|en|Internet]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[circumrētiō]]

+ * [[contrārēte]]

+ * [[irrētiō]]

+ * [[obrētiō]]

+ * [[rēteiaclor]]

+ * [[rētiāculum]]

+ * [[rētiārius]]

+ * [[rētifex]]

+ * [[rētiolum]]

+ * [[interrēte]]

+ * [[rēticulum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|rete]]

+ * [[en|reticule]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}