significantia Latin · revision 9381

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Quintilian|origins=la signum, la faciō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [sɪŋ.nɪ.fɪˈkan.ti.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [siɲ.ɲi.fiˈkan.t͡si.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''significantia''' ''f'' (genitive significantiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[significāns]], present participle of [[significō]] “to show, mean”, with the suffix [[-ia]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD and Lewis & Short cite Quintilian, of the force of words.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Quintilian c. 35–95/96 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Quintilian it was meaningfulness, the expressive force of words, and it was also the conveying of information, indication, and Arnobius used it for meaning.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it was a hidden meaning, symbolism.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin used it for meaning, significance.^(DMLBS) [[en|significance]] (about 1400, the meaning of an omen or dream) came through Old French or directly from Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1400 – English ''significance'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Meaningfulness, expressive force, [[m|en|significance]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # Indication; meaning.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Hidden meaning, [[m|en|symbolism]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[significō]]

+ * [[signum]]

+ * [[en|significance]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}