Re: articles
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 1, 2005, 1:05 |
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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> *definity <-- *de:fi:ni:ta:s is well formed, as is the Latin word - tho it
> is not found in Classical Latin (it might occur in post-Classical Latin,
> for all I know).
Niermeyer's _Mediae Latinitas Lexicon Minus_ gives |definitas|, meaning
"déguerpissement / relinquishment" (this from a later sense of "definio":
déguerpir, céder / renounce, resign), both from the early eleventh century.
*Muke!
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