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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
  • 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.