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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=grc πόλος}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈpɔ.ɫʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɔː.lus]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''polus''' ''m'' (genitive polī); second declension^(Wiktionary)
+ Germanicus has the Greek accusative ''polon''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|grc|πόλος|tr=pólos|t=axis, pole of the sky]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler connects the Greek word with [[m|grc|πέλομαι|tr=pélomai|t=to move]] and [[ine-pro|*kʷel-|t=to turn]].^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Its first example in the OLD is Accius, of the sky: “pass through the heavens, bright stars of the world”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In astronomy it is the end of the axis on which the heavens turn, as Cicero's ''Aratea'' and Pliny's two poles, the pole star in Vitruvius, and in Lucan the hemisphere under either pole.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the poets it is the sky or heavens, the sky of a region, as Lucan's Libyan sky, and the abode of the gods, as Virgil's “glide down from heaven, nymph”.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Hyginus Polus is a Titan.^(OLD 2012)
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+ Church Latin glosses it “sky, heaven, pole of the earth”.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of the sky.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the pole of the heavens.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the abode of the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of the pole star.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|pole]] (of the axis of the heavens); the pole star; the hemisphere under a pole.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # ''(poetic)'' The [[m|en|sky]], the heavens; the abode of the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[axis]]
+ * [[caelum]]
+ * [[en|pole]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}