pompa Latin · revision 31418

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɔm.pa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɔm.pa]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pompa''' ''f'' (genitive pompae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''ponpa'', as in a 6th-century inscription.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|πομπή|tr=pompḗ|t=a sending, escort, solemn procession]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) from [[m|grc|πέμπω|tr=pémpō|t=to send]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ Isidore of Seville derived it from the Greek verb [[m|grc|πομπεύω|tr=pompeúō]], “to be shown in public”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has a girl whose mother took her to see the procession at the Dionysia, in the ''Cistellaria''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a ceremonial procession, at festivals, games, triumphs and weddings, as in Plautus, and at funerals, as Cicero's corpse robbed of its ancestral masks, funeral rites and procession;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Terence uses it of a train of attendants, and Statius of festivity.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In colloquial speech it is the array of dishes at a banquet, as Plautus' “you offer me a parade, a larder, drinking bouts”.^(OLD 2012) It is ostentation or display, as Cicero's mocking “there was pomp, there was show” in the ''In Pisonem''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein sets ''exsequiae'', the mourners who follow the dead, against ''pompa'', the show of the funeral procession.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “pomp, procession, parade”,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin it is the vanity or false show of the world or of the devil.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''pomp'' (about 1300) is from it, through Old French and directly.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of the procession at the Dionysia.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a train of attendants.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of funerals and of display.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1300 – English [[m|en|pomp]] is from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A ceremonial [[m|en|procession]], parade; a funeral procession;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) a [[m|en|retinue]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # The array of dishes at a banquet.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Ostentation, display, [[m|en|pomp]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Vanity, the false show of the world or the devil.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pompālis]]

+ * [[pompāticus]]

+ * [[pompō]]

+ * [[pompōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[exsequiae]]

+ * [[fūnus]]

+ * [[en|pomp]]

+ * [[en|pompous]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}