fulvus Latin · revision 31541

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=inherited|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfʊɫ.wʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈful.vus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fulvus''' (feminine fulva, neuter fulvum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) De Vaan finds only theoretical preforms, perhaps [[itc-pro|*fe/olawo-]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰe/olH-uo-|t=yellow]].^(de Vaan 2008) He rejects the often cited link with [[lt|gel̃tas|t=yellow]], finds Driessen's comparison with [[nl|del|t=yellowish]] hazardous, and thinks the Armenian words for “yellow” and “jaundice” more promising.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary instead derives it from [[ine-pro|*bʰl̥wós]], from [[ine-pro|*bʰel-|t=to shine]], as Köbler does (Pokorny 160), linking it with [[fulgeō|t=to flash]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) The OLD compares [[flāvus|t=yellow]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL date it from Ennius;^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) it is above all a poets' word, absent from Plautus, Terence, Catullus and Juvenal, and used in prose by Seneca, Pliny the Elder and a few later writers.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The OLD defines it as a brown ranging from dull yellow to reddish brown: tawny, sandy.^(OLD 2012) It is used of lions in Lucretius, the she-wolf's hide in Virgil, a Spartan hound in Horace, horsehair crests in Ovid, and of sand and gold.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Simpson 1959) The ancients found the colour hard to define: Gellius thought it a mixture of red and green, and Servius took Virgil's tawny jasper as green.^(TLL)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “gold-coloured”.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Portuguese ''fulo''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius, the first poet to use it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of lions.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a wolf's hide.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius discusses what colour it names.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|tawny]], reddish yellow, yellowish brown, sandy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Simpson 1959)

+ # ''(poetic)'' Golden; sometimes greenish.^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fulvaster]]

+ * [[fulvēscēns]]

+ * [[flāvus]]

+ * [[fulgeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}