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I. Introduction

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Language , Volume 4 , Issue 4-Part2: Language Dissertation No. 3: Latin Parens: Its Meanings and Uses , December 1928 , pp. 7 - 8
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Copyright © 1928 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1. A. Meillet, Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, 20.264, and A. Juret, ib. 20.156.

2. See Karl E. Georges, Lexikon der lateinischen Wortformen, Leipzig, 1890, pp. 411, 494, and 498; Neue-Wagener, Formenlehre der lateinischen Sprache, Leipzig, 1902, I, pp. 377, 378, 382, 388, 391, 404–406, et al.; Ferdinand Sommer, Handbuch der lateinischen Laut- und Formenlehre, 2nd edition, Heidelberg, 1914. pp. 74, 372, and 383; and E. von Wölfflin, Archiv für lateinische Lexikographie und Grammatik 5.489. A. Funck, Archiv für lateinische Lexikographie und Grammatik 7.584-586, discusses the use of parens, pater, and mater, in some inscriptions in CIL IV.

3. The precise number of occurrences of parens, pater, and mater respectively in the divisions of the fragments is as follows: dramatic 12, 61, 23; historical 2, 5, 1; oratorical 2, 4, 4; poetical 1, 4, 4; epigraphical 14, 36, 20. The dramatic and epigraphical fragments form the only significant groups. The number of occurrences of parens in the dramatic fragments represents 12.5% of the total number of words of parenthood. For the epigraphical fragments the percentage is 20.

4. See the Totius Latinitatis Lexicon of Aegidio Forcellini, Vincenzo De-Vit's edition, Florence, 1868; vol. 4, pp. 502–503. Pater and mater present no difficult interpretations. The earliest occurrence of patres with the meaning of parentes is in Vergil's Aeneid 2.579, if we accept the interpretation of many editors. See Edith Fahnestock and Mary B. Peaks, A Vulgar Latin Origin for Spanish Padres Meaning ‘Father and Mother‘; TAP A 44.77–86. Cf. Sanskrit pitdrāu, bhrātarāu, and mitrā, and see H. Lang, Romanic Review 2.339.

5. These were M. N. Wetmore's Index Verborum Catullianus, H. Merguet's Lexikon zu den Reden des Cicero and Lexikon zu den Schriften Cicero's, J. Paulson's Index Lucretianus; also the indices appearing in the editions of Lucilius, Sallust's Histories, and the dramatic and historical fragments, and in the Delphin editions of Caesar, Plautus, Sallust, and Terence.