admirator Latin · revision 9834

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Seneca the Elder|origins=la mīror}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''admīrātor''' ''m'' (genitive admīrātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|admīror|-tor|t1=to admire]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨admīror⟩ is from [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|mīror|t=to wonder at]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Gaffiot's earliest source is Seneca the Elder, and Lewis & Short cite Phaedrus.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Seneca the Elder c. 55 BC–40 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a person who admires or venerates, an admirer, as of the universe in Seneca, and Quintilian's ''antīquitātis nimius admīrātor'' “too great an admirer of antiquity”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for an admirer, devotee.^(DMLBS) It survives as French ''admirateur'', Italian ''ammiratore'' and Spanish and Portuguese ''admirador''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 55 BC–40 AD – Seneca the Elder uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD – Phaedrus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|admirer]], one who venerates.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[admīror]]

+ * [[admīrātiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}