iugis Latin · revision 5935

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈjuː.ɡɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈjuː.d͡ʒis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''iūgis''' (neuter iūge, adverb iūgiter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Its origin is disputed.^(Wiktionary) It was traditionally derived from [[iugum]] “yoke” and [[iungō]] “to join”, “joined together”, as the OLD still does.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Weiss rejected this, since the meaning is “continual” from the start and the long /ū/ is hard to explain from ''iugum''.^(de Vaan 2008) He proposed [[ine-pro|*h₂iu-gʷih₃-|t=having eternal life]], a compound of the words for “long life” and “life”, cognate with [[ae|yauuaējī-|t=living forever]], [[grc|ὑγιής|tr=hugiḗs|t=healthy]] and [[ang|ēce|t=eternal]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan accepts this.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, who speaks of an unfailing treasure.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant continuing without a break, constant, perpetual, and was used above all of water, “ever-flowing, running”, as Cicero's ever-flowing wells and Horace's spring of living water.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) The grammarian Terentianus Maurus uses it of an unbroken series of feet.^(OLD 2012) The augurs' ''iūge auspicium'', when a yoked pair of oxen dunged at once, was taken from ''iugum''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it was common of constant prayer, meditation and illness.^(DMLBS) ''Iūgis'' was also a measure of land, from ''iugum''.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus speaks of an unfailing treasure.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust speaks of a town with one spring of running water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero speaks of ever-flowing wells.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Continual, constant, [[m|en|perpetual]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # (Of water) ever-flowing, running.^(OLD 2012)

+ # (Of a series) unbroken.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[iniugis]]

+ * [[iugifluus]]

+ * [[iugitas]]

+ * [[iūge]]

+ * [[iūgiter]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[iūs]]

+ * [[iuvenis]]

+ * [[aevum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}