numerabilis Latin · revision 8877

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Horace|origins=la numerus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [nʊ.mɛˈraː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [nu.meˈraː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''numerābilis''' (neuter numerābile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[numerō]] “to count” with the suffix [[-bilis]], from [[numerus]] “number”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Horace, whom he dates 65–8 BC, and Horace uses it of a people few enough to count.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant possible or easy to count, and so few in number, as in Horace, and Ovid uses it of a pebble.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it poetic and very rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for what can be numbered or measured.^(DMLBS) It gave [[en|numerable]] in the 1570s, and its negative ''innumerābilis'' is the source of [[en|innumerable]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1570s – English ''numerable'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # That can be counted, [[m|en|numerable]]; few.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[innumerābilis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[numerus]]

+ * [[numerō]]

+ * [[en|numerable]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}