agricola Latin · revision 6339

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=la ager, la colō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [aˈɡrɪ.kɔ.ɫa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [aˈɡriː.ko.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''agricola''' ''m'' (genitive agricolae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ager]] “field” and [[-cola|t=dweller, tiller]], from [[colō]] “to till”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Plautus, whom he dates c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a farmer, cultivator, husbandman, in the widest sense, as Cicero's most diligent farmer, the king Deiotarus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Poets applied it to the gods who protect farming, as in Tibullus.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius has the genitive plural ''agricolum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a cognomen it was borne by Gnaeus Julius Agricola, governor of Britain and Tacitus' father-in-law.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a farmer, husbandman, and in Medieval Latin a peasant, serf or free.^(Stelten 1995)^(DMLBS) Italian ''agricolo'' and French ''agricole'' are borrowings.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses the genitive plural ''agricolum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero calls Deiotarus a diligent farmer.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|farmer]], cultivator.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(poetic)'' A god of agriculture.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|peasant]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[agricolaris]]

+ * [[agricolor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ager]]

+ * [[colō]]

+ * [[agricultūra]]

+ * [[agrestis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}