Primiclerusestudio de un neogolismo hispánico
ISSN: 1130-3336
Année de publication: 2003
Titre de la publication: LITERATURA ÁULICA Y LÉXICO
Número: 14
Pages: 77-101
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Voces
Résumé
This paper studies the word primiclerus from its origins to its disappearance. The author has first searched and examined all the texts �literary works as well as documents� which contain that word, then she has analyzed its morphology and meaning. Moreover, she has intended to determine what grade of the ecclesiastical hierarchy the word referred to and which were its main duties. It has been concluded that primiclerus was a new creation of Visigothic Spain as a calque oíprimicerius. It was used in the final period of the Visigothic kingdom and, afterwards, in its inheritor, the kingdom of León. Its use carne to an end in the 12th century after a brief period of coexistence with its synonyms primicerius, and, most of all, praecentor and cantor. The word ñames an important cathedral rank, whose functions were readjusted throughout time, and finally reduced to the chorus and liturgical readings direction.