pelagus Latin · revision 30845

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=grc πέλαγος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɛ.ɫa.ɡʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɛː.la.ɡus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pelagus''' ''n'' (genitive pelagī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Lucretius has the Greek plural ''pelagē''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Vitruvius has an accusative ''pelagum''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|πέλαγος|tr=pélagos|t=sea, open sea]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) The origin of the Greek word is unclear;^(Köbler 2010) Köbler refers it to Pokorny's root [[ine-pro|*plāk-|t=broad, flat]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pacuvius, quoted by Cicero: ''fervit aestū pelagus'', “the sea boils with the swell”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the sea, a poetic word that post-Augustan prose also used instead of [[mare]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is used with names of seas (Lucilius: where Rhodes slopes into the open Carpathian sea) and of the open, deep sea, as ships put to sea with oars (''Bellum Hispaniense'').^(OLD 2012) Virgil uses it of the sea's water itself, flooding the fields.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein explains that ''mare'' is the sea as a mass of water, while [[aequor]] and ''pelagus'' refer to its wide surface.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “sea, ocean, the deep”.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval Latin it was also the water of a river or lake.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius of a seething sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of the Carpathian sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of sea-water flooding the land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|sea]]; the open sea, the [[m|en|deep]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(poetic)'' Sea-water.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The water of a river or lake.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pelagia]]

+ * [[pelagicus]]

+ * [[pelagius]]

+ * [[mare]]

+ * [[aequor]]

+ * [[pontus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}