harundo Latin · revision 31518

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [haˈrʊn.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈrun.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''harundō''' ''f'' (genitive harundinis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''arundō'', common in manuscripts and editions,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) but Lewis and Short call ''harundō'' the better spelling.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain; the OLD calls it doubtful.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*χarund-en-]].^(de Vaan 2008) He notes that Germanic words for reed in ⟨*hreud-⟩ and [[txb|karwa|t=reeds]] do not lead to a common form,^(de Vaan 2008) and reports Driessen's proposal to connect it with a Gaulish [[m|xtg|*garunda|t=shallow watercourse, riverbank]], seen in the name of the river Garonne, since reeds thrive in shallow water.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has a fisherman carrying a rod, basket and hook, and a bird beating its wings against a limed reed.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a reed, as in Cato, and ''harundō Indica'' in Pliny the Elder is bamboo.^(OLD 2012) Many things were made of reeds and named after them: a fishing rod and a limed rod for catching birds in Plautus, a reed to ride as a hobby-horse in Horace, a reed pen in Persius, a rod for separating the threads of the warp in Ovid, a rattle for scaring birds, a blade, a tube for inhaling smoke or giving medicine, and a splint in Suetonius.^(OLD 2012) It is also a shepherd's pipe, as Virgil's woodland Muse played on a slender reed, and one tube of a panpipe in Tibullus.^(OLD 2012) Finally it is the shaft of an arrow or an arrow, as Ovid's arrow with lead under the shaft.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “reed, cane, rod, shaft, twig”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a fishing rod and a limed reed.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a shepherd's pipe.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of an arrow and of a weaver's rod.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of bamboo.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|reed]], cane;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''harundō Indica'', [[m|en|bamboo]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A [[m|en|fishing rod]]; a limed rod for catching birds.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An object made of reed: a hobby-horse, pen, weaver's rod, rattle, blade, tube or splint.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A shepherd's pipe; a tube of a [[m|en|panpipe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The shaft of an arrow; an [[m|en|arrow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[harundifer]]

+ * [[harundināceus]]

+ * [[harundinārius]]

+ * [[harundinatio]]

+ * [[harundinētum]]

+ * [[harundineus]]

+ * [[harundinōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[calamus]]

+ * [[canna]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}