tus Latin · revision 30947

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc θύος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tūs''' ''n'' (genitive tūris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is sometimes written ''thūs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|θύος|tr=thúos|t=offering, incense]], adapted to Latin; the Greek word belongs to [[m|grc|θύω|tr=thúō|t=to sacrifice]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Poenulus'': a man who has sacrificed ''ūllum tūris grānum'', a single grain of incense, to Venus.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is frankincense, the fragrant gum burnt in sacrifice, as Cicero's ''tūs accendere''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It was burnt at funerals, as Lucan's costly tombs heaped with incense, and used in medicine: Cato gives oxen three grains of it.^(OLD 2012) ''Tūs masculum'' is frankincense in round drops, as in Virgil's “male frankincense”, and Pliny the Elder writes on it at length.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''Tūs terrae'' is a small fragrant plant (Pliny).^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “incense”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a grain of incense.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of incense as a remedy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of burning incense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of male frankincense.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder on frankincense.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|frankincense|alt=Frankincense]], [[m|en|incense]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''tūs terrae'', a small aromatic plant.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tūricremus]]

+ * [[tūrifer]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}