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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la adulter}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [a.dʊɫ.tɛˈriː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [a.dul.teˈriː.nus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''adulterīnus''' (feminine adulterīna, neuter adulterīnum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|adulter|-īnus|t1=adulterous; adulterer]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Plautus, ''adulterīna clāvis'' “a false key”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ Of things it meant adulterated, impure, as in Varro; of documents and coins, forged, counterfeit, as of seals in Cicero and Livy, and ''adulterīna clāvis'' a false or duplicate key; and of persons adulterous, born of adultery, as in Pliny's ''adulterīnō sanguine nātī'', or of passions illicit, as in Apuleius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short also cite it of animals that are not of pure breed.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant not genuine, bastard, adulterous.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for faked, adulterated and unlawful.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''adulterine'', French ''adultérine'' and Italian and Spanish ''adulterino'' are from it.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has ''adulterīna clāvis''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of adulterated things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of forged seals.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # ''(of things)'' [[m|en|adulterated|alt=Adulterated]], impure.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(of documents, coins)'' Forged, [[m|en|counterfeit]], ''adulterīna clāvis'', a false key.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(of persons)'' Adulterous; born of adultery, ''(of passions)'' illicit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[adulter]]
+ * [[adulterātiō]]
+ * [[adulterātor]]
+ * [[adulterātrīx]]
+ * [[adulteritās]]
+ * [[adulterium]]
+ * [[adulterō]]
+ * [[en|adulterine]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}