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tūricremus (feminine tūricrema, neuter tūricremum); first/second-declension adjective[1][2] It is also spelled thūricremus.[2][3][4]

Etymology

It is from Latin tūs (“incense”) + cremō (“to burn”) + -us.[1][5][4] De Vaan takes cremō to be probably a denominative verb, whose further connections are unclear.[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is first found in Lucretius,[4] of altars on which incense is burnt (arae).[2][7][8]

Semantic evolution

Lewis & Short call it poetic.[2] Virgil uses it of altars in the Aeneid,[2][8] Ovid of hearths (foci) in the Heroides and in the Ars amatoria,[2][8] and Lucan of fires (ignes).[2] In British Medieval Latin Walter of Wimborne calls the Virgin Mary an incense-burning altar (altare thuricremum).[9]

Timeline

  • 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of altars.[2][4]
  • 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of altars in the Aeneid.[2][8][4]
  • 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of hearths.[2][4]
  • 39–65 AD – Lucan uses it of fires.[2][4]

Meanings

Adjective

  1. Burning incense; on which incense is burnt (of altars, hearths and fires).[1][2][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  3. ^ Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ Bianchi, Rossella; Lelli, Olga (2014), VOLI: Vocabolario di latino, Florence: Le Monnier
  6. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  7. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  8. ^ a b c d Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
  9. ^ Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press