velamen Latin · revision 10053

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=Virgil|origins=la vēlum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [weːˈɫaː.mɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [veˈlaː.men]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vēlāmen''' ''n'' (genitive vēlāminis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vēlō|-men|t1=to cover, veil]], from [[vēlum]] “cloth, sail, veil”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs ⟨vēlum⟩ as Proto-Italic ⟨*wekslo-⟩, perhaps from a root “to weave” seen in [[sga|figid|t=weaves]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short and Gaffiot cite Virgil's ''Aeneid'', and Köbler's earliest source is Ovid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Virgil 70–19 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant any covering, especially clothing, a garment, robe, veil, and also the hide of animals and the skin of plants, as in Virgil, and Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means veil, cloak.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a nun's veil, ''vēlāmen sacrum'', an altar cloth, and tutelage, protection.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A covering; a garment, [[m|en|veil]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A hide, skin.^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A nun's veil; an [[m|en|altar cloth]]; protection.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vēlō]]

+ * [[vēlum]]

+ * [[vēlāmentum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}