ingluttio

Forms

ingluttiō (present infinitive ingluttīre, perfect active ingluttīvī, supine ingluttītum); fourth conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin in- + gluttiō (“to swallow”).^[1][2]

The TLL, after Walde, traces Romanian înghiți, Italian inghiottire, French engloutir, Occitan englotir and Catalan englutir to it.^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL's first record is the grammarian Caper, who treats it beside ingluvies and gula.^[2]

Semantic evolution

It means to swallow or gulp down.^[2][3][4] The Latin Dioscorides uses it of swallowing lentils, Cassius Felix of taking in a humour, and Gregory of Tours writes evome prius quod ingluttisti, “first vomit up what you swallowed”.^[2] Isidore of Seville explains catapotia (pills) as things swallowed in small amounts.^[2][3] It was also used figuratively: a sermon has Hell addressed as having swallowed the world.^[2] Manuscripts also spell it inglutio.^[2][3]

Timeline

• 2nd century AD – The grammarian Caper names it.^[2][5]
• 447 AD – Cassius Felix uses it in a medical work.^[2][4][5]
• 538/539–594 AD – Gregory of Tours uses it of swallowing food.^[2][5]
• c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville uses it to explain catapotia.^[2][3][5]

Meanings

Verb

1. To swallow, gulp down, devour.^[2][3][1]
2. (figurative) To swallow up.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c d e Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
5. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de