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Forms

lūra f (genitive lūrae); first declension[1] Lewis & Short also give the spelling lōra.[2]

Etymology

The origin is unknown.[3][4][5] Lewis & Short derived it from the same root as lōrum “thong”, taking it to mean first the thong that closed a leather bag.[2] The TLL considers it unlikely that dialectal French loure (“bagpipe”) and Italian lora (“funnel”) and lura of northern Italian dialects belong here.[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is known from Paulus' epitome of Festus, which explains it as the mouth of a leather sack or wineskin and derives from it lurcōnēs, men with a capacious gullet who eat up their property.[3][4][2]

Semantic evolution

Lewis & Short and Köbler also cite Ausonius for the sense “leather sack”,[2][5] but the TLL regards that reading as a mistaken restoration of the text.[4] Wiktionary gives the senses “sack, bag” and, figuratively, “belly, paunch”.[1]

Meanings

Noun

  1. The mouth of a leather sack or wineskin.[3][4][2]
  2. A leather sack, a bag.[2][1]
  3. (figurative) The belly, paunch.[1]
  • lurcō

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  3. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  5. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de