[181] Cf. Morris, Principles and Methods in Latin Syntax, p. 65. It must be noted, however, that this is only one direction in which semantic development takes place. The opposite (decrease of connotation) is also observable as a definite line of semantic development.
[182] This is one of four -mentum words which occur first in Sallust. The others are hortamentum, irritamentum, turbamentum. Norden mentions the use of -mentum words as a peculiarity of Sallust’s style (Gercke und Norden. Einleitung in die Alt. Wiss. I. 578), but with the exception of these four words, which occur, moreover, only once each in this author, the examples scarcely justify the statement.
[183] Cf. Festus, p. 38: conciliabulum dicitur locus, ubi in concilium venitur.
[184] Cf. Walde, who gives as the etymology of this word, ver(o)-stabulum, in which *uer = “door”.
[185] See Mommsen, Röm. Gesch. Bk. I, Ch. XV.
[186] Only those -culum words were examined which were not diminutives. Some of the words formed with this suffix do have diminutive meaning, but for a diminutive to be formed on a verb stem is impossible.
[187] Cf. Varro, Lingua Latina, 5, Art. 162.
[188] See the article by Professors Oertel and Morris on The Nature and Origin of Indo-European Inflection, Harvard Class. Stud., Vol. XVI, p. 89.
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