Open AccessEl tratamiento de las etimologías por gramáticos y poetas latinos
Author(s) -
Ciríaca Morano
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
emérita/emerita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1988-8384
pISSN - 0013-6662
DOI - 10.3989/emerita.1987.v55.i1.641
Subject(s) - humanities , philosophy , gram , geology , bacteria , paleontology
It is traditionally asserted that there is an enormous difference between the treatment of the etymology given by the ancient tradition and the one of modern Linguistics. In this paper the authoress tries to tinge this assertion pointing out to some Latin grammarians, especially Varro, who forebode contemporary scientific formulations. However, the poets use the etymology just as a rhetorical «ornament»