meatus Latin · revision 9599

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *h₂mey-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [meˈaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [meˈaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''meātus''' ''m'' (genitive meātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[meō]] “to go, pass” with the action-noun suffix [[-tus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs ⟨meō⟩ as [[itc-pro|*mejo-]], from [[ine-pro|*h₂mey-|t=to exchange]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Lucretius, ''sōlis lūnaeque meātūs'' “the courses of sun and moon”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Lucretius 96–55 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a movement along a course, a going, passing, as in Lucretius, Virgil and Tacitus; the course or path of a moving body, as in Seneca; and a passage, channel, as in Columella.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler records ''meātus aurium'', the ear canal.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it was a passage, way.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for movement along a course.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of a channel.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A going, movement, course.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A path.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A passage, channel, ''meātus aurium'' the [[m|en|ear canal]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[meō]]

+ * [[commeātus]]

+ * [[trāmes]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}