lana Latin · revision 31277

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂ulh₁-neh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫaː.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlaː.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lāna''' ''f'' (genitive lānae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*wlānā-|t=wool]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₂ulh₁-neh₂-|t=wool]], literally “plucked material”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[sga|olann|t=wool]], [[sa|ऊर्णा|tr=ū́rṇā-|t=wool]], [[grc|λῆνος|tr=lênos|t=wool]] and [[got|𐍅𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰|tr=wulla|t=wool]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan adds that Schrijver rejects a link with [[m|la|vellus|t=fleece]] and [[m|la|vellō|t=to pluck]] while Meiser keeps it, and that the Hittite words for wool may not belong here.^(de Vaan 2008) Varro took it for a Greek word.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has sheep that give neither milk nor any wool in the ''Bacchides'' and “I provide wool, gold, clothes, purple” in the ''Menaechmi''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the natural covering of sheep, wool, and ''aurea lāna'' is the Golden Fleece.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is wool as a material for cloth, a piece of wool or woollen stuff, as Ovid's witch who curses with threaded wool, and wool-working as an occupation, as Terence's woman earning her living by wool and the loom.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ It is also similar material from other creatures, soft hair, feathers or down, as Martial's swan's down, and also cotton, and the down on fruit, as Calpurnius' quinces.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “wool”,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval Latin uses it of a fleece or woolfell.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of sheep's wool and of wool as goods.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of wool-working.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of threaded wool in magic.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of swan's down.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|wool|alt=Wool]] (of sheep);^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''aurea lāna'', the [[m|en|Golden Fleece]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Wool as a material; a piece of woollen stuff; spinning, wool-working.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Down, soft hair, feathers; [[m|en|cotton]]; the down on fruit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A fleece, [[m|en|woolfell]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lānāris]]

+ * [[lānārius]]

+ * [[lānātus]]

+ * [[lanestris]]

+ * [[lāneus]]

+ * [[lānicium]]

+ * [[lānicutis]]

+ * [[lānificus]]

+ * [[lānifricārius]]

+ * [[lāniger]]

+ * [[lanipendens]]

+ * [[lānipendius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vellō]]

+ * [[vellus]]

+ * [[lānūgō]]

+ * [[en|wool]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}