agrimensor Latin · revision 9471

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Ammianus Marcellinus|origins=la ager, la mētior}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [a.ɡrɪˈmẽː.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [a.ɡriˈmɛn.sor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''agrimēnsor''' ''m'' (genitive agrimēnsōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[ager]] “field, land” and [[mēnsor]] “measurer”, from [[mētior]] “to measure”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The Thesaurus thinks it was coined after Greek [[grc|γεωμέτρης|tr=geōmétrēs|t=land measurer]].^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨ager⟩ to [[ine-pro|*h₂éǵros|t=uncultivated field, pasture]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD, Lewis & Short and Gaffiot cite Ammianus Marcellinus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Ammianus about 390 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a land surveyor, in Ammianus Marcellinus and Cassiodorus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it kept the sense surveyor.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in Italian ''agrimensore'' and Spanish ''agrimensor'', and English borrowed it as [[m|en|agrimensor]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A land [[m|en|surveyor]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ager]]

+ * [[mēnsor]]

+ * [[mētior]]

+ * [[en|agrimensor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}