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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [rɛˈmoː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [reˈmɔː.tus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''remōtus''' (feminine remōta, neuter remōtum, comparative remōtior, superlative remōtissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is the perfect participle of [[removeō]] “to move back, remove”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Gaffiot 2016) The manuscripts of Lucretius have ⟨remm-⟩ or a long ⟨rē-⟩.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation for the adjective is from Varro, of what is far removed in nature.^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cicero; he dates Varro 116–27 BC and Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant remote, distant, as Caesar's and Cicero's remote places and Ovid's ''remōtius antrum'', and of kinship distant, as in Pliny, and in Tacitus remote in time.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant far removed in nature, unrelated, as in Varro, and in rhetoric of a proof extraneous.^(OLD 2012) Of persons it meant remote from a way of life, as in Cicero, and of arguments far-fetched; in Gellius it meant recondite.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant remote, far off, distant.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin also used it of a musical interval and as a noun for a remote place.^(DMLBS) [[en|remote]] came in the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of what is far removed.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of remote places.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of remote times.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * mid-15th century – English ''remote'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # [[m|en|Remote]], distant, in space, kinship or time.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Recondite, out of the way.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Far removed, unrelated, ''(rhetoric)'' extraneous.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Remote from a way of life.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Of arguments, far-fetched.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[removeo]]
+ * [[moveō]]
+ * [[en|remote]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}