commentarius Latin · revision 7753

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la comminīscor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''commentārius''' ''m'' (genitive commentāriī or commentārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[commentum]] “invention” or [[commentor]] “to study, write”, with the suffix [[-ārius]], ultimately from [[comminīscor]] “to devise”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) A neuter ⟨commentārium⟩ is also found, as in Varro and Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Isidore explains it as if ⟨cum mente⟩ “with the mind”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero, of a notebook and a journal.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a notebook, private journal, a historical record, and in Varro a public register kept by magistrates or priests, ''ā commentāriīs'' its keeper.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Cicero it meant a treatise, notes, a memorandum, as his ''nōn est ōrātiō, sed ōrātiōnis commentārium'' “not a speech but the notes of a speech”, and in Suetonius an explanatory commentary.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Medieval Latin used it for a notary.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it for a commentary and a register.^(DMLBS) Medieval Latin ''commentārius'' “notebook, annotation” gave [[en|commentary]] in the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of a public register.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of notes for a speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of a commentary.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A notebook, journal; a historical record.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A public register.^(OLD 2012)

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

+ # Notes, a [[m|en|memorandum]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A notary.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[commentāriolum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[commentor]]

+ * [[commentum]]

+ * [[en|commentary]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}