lustro Latin · revision 30899

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=280/260–before 200 BC, Livius Andronicus|origins=la lūstrum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫuːs.troː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlus.tro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lūstrō''' (present infinitive lūstrāre, perfect active lūstrāvī, supine lūstrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Livius Andronicus has a deponent ''lūstror''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|lūstrum|t=purification]] with the verb suffix [[m|la|-ō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) The origin of the noun is disputed: Walde–Hofmann and Pokorny derived it from the root of [[m|la|lūx|t=light]], as “illumination”, but de Vaan finds no evidence for that meaning and prefers Serbat's derivation from the root of [[m|la|luō|t=to loosen, atone]], with the suffix of [[m|la|mōnstrum]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan's first author is Livius Andronicus.^(de Vaan 2008) Cato gives the rite: ''agrum lūstrāre sīc oportet'', “this is how a field must be purified”: have the pig, sheep and bull led round it.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is to purify by a ritual that included a procession round the person or place, as a field or an army before a campaign, and to atone for an event (Lucan).^(OLD 2012) Since the rite went round, it came to mean to move round or circle, as the stars round the sky in Cicero, and to traverse or roam: Pythagoras is said to have travelled the furthest lands.^(OLD 2012) With ''lūmine'' or alone it is to spread light over, illuminate.^(OLD 2012) With the eyes it is to scan or survey, as Aeneas looks over each thing in the temple, with the mind to review, and in Virgil to look round for someone.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “purify, cleanse; illuminate, consider, review”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''lustrate'' (1650s), “purify by an offering”, comes from its participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 280/260–before 200 BC – Livius Andronicus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of purifying a field.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of stars circling and of roaming far lands.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of surveying with the eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1650s – English [[m|en|lustrate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|purify]] (by a rite with a procession); to atone for.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To move round, circle; to surround.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|traverse]], roam, scour.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To spread light over, [[m|en|illuminate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To scan, survey, [[m|en|review]]; to look round for.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[collūstrō]]

+ * [[illūstrō]]

+ * [[lūstrāmen]]

+ * [[lūstrāmentum]]

+ * [[lūstrātiō]]

+ * [[lūstrātor]]

+ * [[lūstricus]]

+ * [[lūstrificus]]

+ * [[perlūstrō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lūstrum]]

+ * [[luō]]

+ * [[en|lustrate]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate noun ''lustrō'', ''-ōnis'', is a frequenter of brothels or a vagabond, found in Naevius; it comes from [[lustrum]], “den, brothel”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}