Quirites
English
Etymology
Proper noun
Quirites
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain. A common proposal is Proto-Italic *kom + *wiros (“fellow man”), which De Vaan (2008) rejects by contrasting the phonetic evolution in cūria, yet doesn't settle on an etymon.[1] Against this, Vine (2016) suggests that the two words could simply stem from periods of different stress, so that different syllables underwent vowel reduction: /kowiˈriː-/ > /kʷiˈriː-/ like Late Latin quāgulum from coāgulum.[2]
According to a Roman legend, from the Sabine town, Curēs, which would make it a Sabine loanword. In Ancient Greek the inhabitants of Cures were named Κυρῖται (Kurîtai).
Compare Ancient Greek Κούρητες (Koúrētes).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kʷɪˈriː.teːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kʷiˈriː.tes]
Proper noun
Quirītēs m pl (genitive Quirītium or Quirītum); third declension
- The endonym of the Romans in their civil capacity, while Rōmānī referred to them in a political and military capacity.
- (very rare, poetic) the inhabitants of the Sabine town, Cures
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem or imparisyllabic non-i-stem), plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Quirītēs |
| genitive | Quirītium Quirītum |
| dative | Quirītibus |
| accusative | Quirītēs Quirītīs |
| ablative | Quirītibus |
| vocative | Quirītēs |
Related terms
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “quirīs, -ītis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 509
- ^ Brent Vine (2016), “"Latin bēs/bessis 'two thirds of an as'"”, in Tavet Tat Satyam: Studies in Honor of Jared S. Klein on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday[1], page 327
Further reading
- “Quirites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Quirites”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "Quirites", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “Quirites”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.