oleaster Latin · revision 8276

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɔ.ɫeˈas.tɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [o.leˈas.ter]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''oleaster''' ''m'' (genitive oleastrī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[olea]] “olive tree” with the suffix [[-aster]], which marks a wild or inferior kind.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the wild olive, the oleaster; there is also a neuter ''oleastrum''.^(OLD 2012) Virgil, Ovid and Pliny the Elder use it, and a glossary renders it with Greek ''agrielaia''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Isidore explains that it is so called because its leaves resemble the olive's but are wider; it is a wild, bitter, fruitless tree.^(Isidore) British Medieval Latin used it for the wild olive, distinguishing it from ''olīva'', with reference to Romans 11:17, where the Gentiles are a wild olive grafted onto the tree.^(DMLBS) English took [[m|en|oleaster]] from it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore explains its name.^(Isidore)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The wild [[m|en|olive]], [[m|en|oleaster]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[olea]]

+ * [[olīva]]

+ * [[en|oleaster]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}