crastinus Latin · revision 6283

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la crās}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkraːs.tɪ.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkras.ti.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''crāstinus''' (feminine crāstina, neuter crāstinum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[crās]] “tomorrow” with the suffix ⟨-tinus⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citations are from Plautus, of the next day.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant of tomorrow, of the next day, as Plautus' and Cicero's ''crāstinus diēs'' “tomorrow”, and Plautus' old ''diē crāstinī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) As a noun it meant tomorrow, with ''in crāstinum'' “till tomorrow”, as in Seneca, and poetically it meant of the future.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short call it frequent and Classical in prose and poetry.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Crastinus was also a Roman surname, as in Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant relating to tomorrow.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it meant of the morrow, with ''crāstinum colloquium'' a “morrow speech”.^(DMLBS) [[en|procrastinate]] comes from its compound [[prōcrāstinō]] “to put off till tomorrow” in the 1580s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses ''crāstinus diēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''crāstinus diēs''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses ''in crāstinum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1580s – English ''procrastinate'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of [[m|en|tomorrow]], ''crāstinus diēs'', tomorrow.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(as noun)'' Tomorrow, ''in crāstinum'', till tomorrow.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(poetic)'' Of the future.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[prōcrāstinō]]

+ * [[recrastinō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[crās]]

+ * [[en|procrastinate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}