finitivus Latin · revision 9781

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [fiː.niːˈtiː.wʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [fi.niˈtiː.vus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fīnītīvus''' (feminine fīnītīva, neuter fīnītīvum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|fīniō|-īvus|t1=to limit, define]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(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 Quintilian, of the ''status fīnītīvus''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Quintilian c. 35–95/96 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A post-Augustan technical term of rhetoric and grammar, it meant defining, explaining, and of a disputed point dependent on the definition of terms, as in Quintilian's ''status fīnītīvus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant final, definitive.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' Defining; dependent on the [[m|en|definition]] of terms.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Final, [[m|en|definitive]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fīnālis]]

+ * [[fīniēns]]

+ * [[fīniō]]

+ * [[fīnis]]

+ * [[fīnitimus]]

+ * [[fīnītiō]]

+ * [[fīnītor]]

+ * [[fīnītus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}