Notes on the history of σύμφωνον / consonans
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2019.01.1815Keywords:
Consonant, σύμφωνον, vowel, letters, στοιχεῖα, Dionysius Thrax, QuintilianusAbstract
The modern word «consonant» patently derives from the Latin voice consonans, which, in turn, is a loan shift (semantic calque) from the Greek σύμφωνον. This paper aims to trace the history of both terms and to examine some of the modern usages they have been given. Traditionally, the use of the term σύμφωνα to indicate the set of current consonants seems to appear for the first time in the Τέχνη γραμματική, attributed to Alexandrian grammarian Dionysius Thrax (2nd century B.C.), an authorship that is, to say the least, considered suspicious by contemporary critics. The Latin voice consonans, for its part, is first attested in Quintilian at the end of the first century B.C.
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