flexilis Latin · revision 9779

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfɫɛk.sɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈflɛk.si.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flexilis''' (neuter flexile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|flectō|-ilis|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 Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Virgil 70–19 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Poetic and post-Augustan, it meant that may be bent, pliant, flexible, as of a bow in Ovid, and curved, bent, twisted, of hair curled, as in Pliny and Apuleius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for easily bent, flexible, as in Alcuin.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a bow.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny uses it of curls.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Pliant, [[m|en|flexible]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Curved, twisted, ''(of hair)'' curled.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[flectō]]

+ * [[flexus]]

+ * [[flexibilis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}