frugalitas Latin · revision 9981

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''frūgālitās''' ''f'' (genitive frūgālitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|frūgālis|-tās|t1=thrifty, worthy]], from [[frūx]] “fruit, worth”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives ⟨frūx⟩ from the root of [[fruor]], [[ine-pro|*bʰruHg-|t=to use]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant steadiness of life, sober habits, temperance, thrift, frugality, and in general worth, virtue, equivalent to [[grc|σωφροσύνη|tr=sōphrosúnē]]; in Apuleius it was a modest fortune, and Gaffiot also gives a good crop.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means simplicity, frugality.^(Stelten 1995) It survives as French ''frugalité'' and Italian ''frugalità''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of a modest income.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Sober habits, temperance, [[m|en|thrift]], [[m|en|frugality]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Worth, [[m|en|virtue]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A modest fortune.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[frūgālis]]

+ * [[frūgī]]

+ * [[frūx]]

+ * [[en|frugality]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}