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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ˈɫam.poː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ˈlam.po][1]

Forms

lampō (present infinitive lampāre, perfect active lampāvī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Ancient Greek λάμπω (lámpō, “to shine”).[1][2][3] The TLL lists its Romance continuants, among them Tuscan lampare, Sardinian lampare, Catalan llampar and Spanish lampar.[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

It first appears in Cassiodorus,[2][3][4] who uses it both of light, as when an angel's brightness shines over the whole world, and figuratively of eloquence.[2][5][6]

Semantic evolution

In Cassiodorus it means to shine or gleam, literally and figuratively,[2][7] and Conte also records a transitive use, to light up something.[6] The Latin version of Josephus' Antiquities has it of flashes of lightning.[2] It is a word of Ecclesiastical Latin;[5][1] medieval poets used it of virtue or merit that shines like a star,[8] and the Czech-Latin lexicon glosses it “to shine, gleam”.[9]

Timeline

  • c. 485–c. 580 AD – Cassiodorus uses it of shining light and of shining eloquence.[2][5][4]
  • Medieval Latin – Medieval poems and hymns use it of things that shine like stars.[8]

Meanings

Verb

  1. (intransitive) To shine, gleam.[2][3][7]
  2. (figurative) To shine, be brilliant (of eloquence).[5][7]
  3. (transitive) To illuminate, light up.[6]

Word family

  • lampabilis

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  4. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  6. ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  7. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  8. ^ a b Novum Glossarium Mediae Latinitatis ab anno DCCC usque ad annum MCC (1957–), Copenhagen / Geneva / Paris: Union Académique Internationale; IRHT
  9. ^ Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum / Slovník středověké latiny v českých zemích (1977–), Prague: Academia; electronic version, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences