finitor Latin · revision 9780

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la fīnis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [fiːˈniː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [fiˈniː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fīnītor''' ''m'' (genitive fīnītōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|fīniō|-tor|t1=to limit, mark out]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨fīniō⟩ is from [[m|la|fīnis|t=boundary, end]], whose etymology de Vaan calls disputed.^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Plautus' ''Poenulus''.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a person who marks out boundaries, a land surveyor, as in Cicero; one who sets an end or limit to something, as in Persius; and in Seneca ''circulus fīnītor'' the horizon.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ British Medieval Latin used ''vīsūs fīnītor'' for the limit of view, the horizon.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a surveyor.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of the horizon.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|surveyor]], one who marks out boundaries.^(OLD 2012)

+ # One who sets an end or limit.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''circulus fīnītor'': the [[m|en|horizon]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fīnālis]]

+ * [[fīniēns]]

+ * [[fīniō]]

+ * [[fīnis]]

+ * [[fīnitimus]]

+ * [[fīnītiō]]

+ * [[fīnītīvus]]

+ * [[fīnītus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ In Plautus the second syllable seems short, and the OLD suggests that word may strictly be a separate formation from [[fīnis]] on the analogy of [[iānitor]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}