glubo

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [ˈɡɫuː.boː]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɡluː.bo]^[1]

Forms

glūbō (present infinitive glūbere, perfect active glūpsī, supine glū̆ptum); third conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Proto-Italic *gloufe/o-, inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gleubʰ-e/o- (“to split”).^[2][1] Cognate with Ancient Greek γλύφω (glúphō, “to carve”), Old High German klioban (“to split”) and Old English clēofan (“to split”), the source of English cleave.^[2][3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan dates it from Cato,^[2] who tells farmers to strip the willow of its bark.^[5] Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^[6]

Semantic evolution

It meant to strip the bark from a tree or branch, to peel, and intransitively, of timber, to shed its bark.^[3][5] Catullus uses it obscenely of Lesbia and the descendants of Remus.^[5][7][1]

The compound dēglūbō “to skin, strip” is found from Plautus, and the noun glūma “husk” from Ennius.^[2]

Timeline

• 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of stripping a willow.^[5][6]
• 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of peeling branches.^[5][6]
• 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it obscenely.^[5][6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To strip the bark from, peel.^[3]
2. (intransitive) To shed its bark.^[5]
3. (vulgar) To strip back the foreskin of.^[1]

Word family

• dēglūbō

Related words

• glūma
• English cleave
• English glyph

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
3. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
4. ^ Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
5. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
7. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.