amburbium

Forms

amburbium n (genitive amburbiī or amburbī); second declension^[1]

Etymology

It is from ambi- “around” and urbs “city”, with the suffix -ium.^[2][3][1] De Vaan traces ⟨urbs⟩ to Proto-Italic *worf-(i-), from Proto-Indo-European *w(o)rbʰ-(i-) (“enclosure”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler's earliest source is the Historia Augusta, which he dates to the 4th–5th century AD.^[5] Servius on Virgil's Eclogues also explains it.^[6]

Semantic evolution

It was the annual expiatory procession round the city of Rome, at which the sacrificial victim was led round the city.^[2][7][6]

Timeline

• 4th–5th century AD – The Historia Augusta uses it.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. An expiatory procession round Rome.^[2][7]

Word family

• amburbiālis

Related words

• urbs
• ambarvālia

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
7. ^ a b Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press