historicus Latin · revision 6513

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Varro|origins=grc ἱστορικός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [hɪsˈtɔ.rɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [isˈtɔː.ri.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''historicus''' (feminine historica, neuter historicum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἱστορικός|tr=historikós|t=exact, historical]], from [[grc|ἱστορία|tr=historía|t=inquiry, history]]; it is also felt as [[historia]] with the suffix [[-icus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Varro, of things based on inquiry into records.^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant based on inquiry into records, as Varro's recorded instances, and proper to history or historical writing, as Cicero's ''genus historicum'' and ''sermō historicus'' “historical style”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) As a noun it meant a historian, a researcher, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant historical, founded on fact, literal, as opposed to the spiritual or allegorical sense of Scripture.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in Italian ''storico'', French ''historique'' and Spanish ''histórico''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|historical]] came in the early 15th century, and [[en|historic]] in the 1660s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of recorded instances.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of historical style and of historians.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''historical'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Based on records; [[m|en|historical]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Proper to history or historical writing.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Literal (of the sense of Scripture).^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|historian]]; a researcher.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[historia]]

+ * [[en|historic]]

+ * [[en|historical]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}