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hornus

hornus

grown, produced in this year

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1. hornus — de Vaan

hornus 'grown, produced in this year' [adj. o] (Hor.+) Derivatives: hornd [adv.] 'this year' (P1.+), hornotinus 'of this year's growth' (Cato+). Most scholars assume that hornus is a derivative in *-/«o- of *ho-ior(o)- 'this year', from PIE *(H)ie/oH-r 'year'. Yet the uninfected state of *ho- is Strang: maybe one horreo could posit a loc.sg. *hoiioroi > *hojoroi > *hon9 whence *horino- was derived; but why with a … — [de Vaan, s.v. hornus, p. 303]

2. hornus — Lewis & Short

hornus, a, um, adj.contr. for hōrinus = w(/rinos from w(/ra,

I of this year, this year's (not in Cic.; but cf. hornotinus): agni, Prop. 4, (5), 3, 61: fruge, Hor. C. 3, 23, 3: vina, id. Epod. 2, 47: palea, id. S. 2, 6, 88. —Adv.: horno, this year: utrum anno an horno te abstuleris a viro? Lucil. ap. Non. 121, 8: horno messis magna fuit, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 3; Varr. ap. Non. 121, 10.

3. hörnus — Walde–Hofmann

hörnus, -a, -um „heurig* (seit Varro u. Hor. (dicht. und veraltet, nach Petron ausgestorben, vlt. u. rom. dafür die Verdeutlichung Àóc annö; vom adv. Abl. hörnö seit Plaut, hórnótinus ,heurig^ seit Cato [IF. 44, 72]: nach Pott I 1040, Curtius 350, Solmsen Stud. 99 f. aus *höjörinos, gebildet von einem Instr. *hörö aus *hó jórü „in diesem Jahre“, vgl. ahd. Aiuru „heuer“ aus hiu jaru (s. unter hodie, auch zur … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. hörnus, p. 690]

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Where it came from

  • de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. hornus (scan pp. 303-304; entry #774). Root candidates: *ho-, *horino-.
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. hornus (scan p. 323; entry #5111).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. hörnus (scan pp. 690-691; entry #1335).

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