carex Latin · revision 6164

+ {{infobox|confidence=unknown|attested=Virgil}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkaː.rɛks]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkaː.reks]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cārex''' ''f'' (genitive cāricis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It has no clear etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Muller suggested a link with [[cārō]] “to card wool”, and the suffix -ex, -icis is found in many tree and plant names, many of them without etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary compares [[cy|cors|t=reeds, bog]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Virgil, who speaks of a bull fed on sharp sedge.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Isidore) Köbler dates Virgil 70–19 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant reed grass, rush or sedge, as in Virgil, Columella and Palladius, also with the nominative ''cārix''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008) Isidore of Seville describes it as a sharp, very hard plant like esparto.^(Isidore)

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+ In Medieval Latin it was sedge.^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish ''carrizo'' and Italian ''carice'', and is the botanical name of the sedges.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of sharp sedge.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville describes it.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Reed grass, [[m|en|sedge]], rush.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cārectum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|carex]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}