librarius Latin · revision 6637

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Varro|origins=la liber}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [lɪˈbraː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [liˈbraː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''librārius''' ''m'' (genitive librāriī or librārī, feminine librāria); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[liber]] “book” with the suffix [[-ārius]], first as an adjective “of books” and then as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation for the noun is Varro, and Varro also has ''scrība librārius'' “record clerk”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler's first source is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a noun it meant a scribe, copyist or secretary, as in Cicero, and a bookseller, as in Catullus and Seneca.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) As an adjective it meant of books, as Cicero's ''librāria taberna'' “bookshop” and Horace's ''scrīptor librārius'' “copyist”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Jerome uses it of an elementary teacher.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant a primary schoolmaster, an author, a librarian and a chancery clerk, and as an adjective learned.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish ''librero'', Italian ''libraio'' and French ''libraire'' “bookseller”.^(Wiktionary) [[en|library]] comes in the late 14th century from the related ''librārium'' “bookcase” and ''librāria'' “bookshop”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of a record clerk and a copyist.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it of a bookseller.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a secretary and a bookshop.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 383–419/420 AD – Jerome uses it of a schoolmaster.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|scribe]], copyist, secretary.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|bookseller]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' An elementary teacher.^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|librarian]]; an author; a chancery clerk.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of books.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[librāria]]

+ * [[librāriolus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[liber]]

+ * [[en|library]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A different adjective ''lībrārius'', from [[lībra]] “pound”, meant weighing a pound.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}