genuinus Latin · revision 8237

+ {{homograph|1|innate, genuine}}

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+ {{homograph|2|molar}}

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɡɛ.nuˈiː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [d͡ʒe.nuˈiː.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''genuīnus''' ''m'' (genitive genuīnī); second declension; also adjective ''genuīnus dēns''^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The molar is named from [[gena]] “cheek” with the suffix [[-īnus]]: Festus explains them as the teeth that hang from the cheeks.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero, describing digestion, says the innermost teeth, called ''genuīnī'', grind the food.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Pliny the Elder uses it of the wisdom teeth that grow about the twentieth year, and Juvenal of mouldy bread that sets the molar working without letting it bite.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Persius' phrase ''genuīnum frangere in aliquō'', “to break a molar on someone”, means to satirize him savagely, as Lucilius did.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Medieval writers kept it for the molar, and Aldhelm used it of the teeth of bears and of the vices.^(MLW)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the back teeth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of wisdom teeth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius, ''genuīnum frangere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ * 639–709 AD – Aldhelm, of the teeth of bears.^(Köbler 2010)^(MLW)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A back tooth, [[m|en|molar]]; a [[m|en|wisdom tooth]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ * [[gena]]