flexura Latin · revision 9778

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Lucretius|origins=la flectō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flexūra''' ''f'' (genitive flexūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|flectō|-ūra|t1=to bend]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs ⟨flectō⟩ as [[itc-pro|*flek-t-]], perhaps with a suffix ⟨*-t-⟩ on the model of ⟨plectō⟩; the root has no obvious Indo-European cognates.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Lucretius, of the bending of the side (''lateris'').^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Lucretius 96–55 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a bending, winding, turning, as in Lucretius, Seneca and Suetonius, and in grammar the inflection of a word, as in Varro, and Lewis & Short call it rare and not in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a bend, turning.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for curvature and for a curve or curved object.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it in grammar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A bending, turning.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(grammar)'' [[m|en|inflection|alt=Inflection]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|curve]], curvature.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[flectō]]

+ * [[flexus]]

+ * [[flexiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}