exemplum.
example, sample, specimen; instance; precedent, case; warning, deterrent; pattern, model; parallel, analogy; archetype; copy/reproduction, transcription;
Meaning & usage
a sample, example
a warning example, deterrent
esse in exemplō
torture, exemplary penalty, chastisement
deed, memorable circumstance
precedent, case, custom
depiction, paint
confrontation, comparison
a copy or transcript
Where this word comes from
Ultimately from eximō (“to take out, take away”), itself from ex + emō. Hypothesized to go back to *exem-lom, with epenthesis turning *-ml- into -mpl-; another possible example of this change is amplus. However, Leumann 1977 argues the use of voiceless -p- rather than voiced -b- as the epenthetic consonant is unusual, and suggests it may have been influenced somehow by exēmptus. Compare templum. Possibly compare also instrument nouns ending in -ulum, such as capulum, dēcipulum, speculum. It is debated whether the ending in these comes from pre-Latin *-elom, the neuter form of the agent noun suffix *-elos (Classical Latin -ulus), or from the Proto-Indo-European instrument noun suffix *-tlom (which normally became Latin -culum, but which may have alternatively developed to -ulum after stop consonants).
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