strues Latin · revision 9369

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=ine-pro *strew-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈstru.eːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈstruː.es]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''struēs''' ''f'' (genitive struis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[struō]] “to pile up, build” with the suffix [[-ēs]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces ⟨struō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*strow-e/o-]], from [[ine-pro|*strew-|t=to strew]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD and Köbler cite Cato, of a row of sacrificial cakes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Cato it was a row of sacrificial cakes, and Festus describes them as cakes like joined fingers held by a crosswise strip.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In general it was a heap, a pile, a mass, as in Varro and Cicero's heap of bricks, and Tacitus has ''strūēs rogī'' “the pile of a pyre”; an inscription uses it of a tomb.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a heap, pile.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for a heap, also figuratively, a structure, and a pyre.^(DMLBS) Etymonline relates it to ''strūctūra'', the source of [[en|structure]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of sacrificial cakes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of a pyre.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|heap]], pile, mass.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(religion)'' A row of sacrificial cakes.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A structure; a [[m|en|pyre]].^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[struō]]

+ * [[strūctūra]]

+ * [[en|structure]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}