conventiculum Latin · revision 9974

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''conventiculum''' ''n'' (genitive conventiculī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a diminutive of [[conventus]] “meeting”, with [[m|la|-culum]], from [[conveniō]] “to come together”, from [[m|la|con-]] and [[veniō]] “to come”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨veniō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*gʷm̥-ye/o-|t=to come]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Cicero, of a small assembly.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a small assembly, meeting, association, as in Cicero's ''conventicula hominum'', gatherings of men which later were called states; and in Tacitus a place of resort.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means assembly, meeting.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a conventicle, and British Medieval Latin especially for an unofficial or unlawful assembly.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of a place of resort.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small [[m|en|assembly]], meeting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A place of resort.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|conventicle]], an unlawful assembly.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[conventus]]

+ * [[conveniō]]

+ * [[veniō]]

+ * [[en|conventicle]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}