inguen Latin · revision 31542

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=ine-pro *n̥gʷ-ēn}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɪŋ.ɡʷɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈiŋ.ɡʷen]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inguen''' ''n'' (genitive inguinis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Late Latin also has a feminine ''inguina'', ''-ae'' (Isidore).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995) A spelling with ''ig-'' occurs in the veterinary writer Chiron.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*n̥gwen-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*n̥gʷ-ēn|t=the naked one]], an ⟨n⟩-stem from the root of [[nūdus|t=naked]].^(de Vaan 2008) It is cognate with [[grc|ἀδήν|tr=adḗn|t=gland]],^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) which de Vaan keeps with the Latin word because both “gland” and “groin” can come from “naked”.^(de Vaan 2008) Schrijver and Beekes instead separate the Greek word and compare North Germanic words for a swelling such as [[is|økkr|t=gland, tumour]]; de Vaan rejects this.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler gives the root as [[ine-pro|*engʷ-|t=swelling, groin]] (Pokorny 319).^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucilius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of a swelling in the groin: “lest a bubo appear”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The OLD's first sense is the swelling, a bubo, and other swellings on the body.^(OLD 2012) From Virgil on it is the groin itself, as where a spear pierces a man's left groin,^(OLD 2012) singular or more often plural.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also names the genitals, of Priapus in the ''Copa'' and in Horace and Juvenal.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of the place on a reed where a branch joins the stem.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin has it for the groin, also as the feminine ''inguina''.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of a bubo.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the groin.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore has the feminine ''inguina''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A swelling in the groin, [[m|en|bubo]]; other swellings on the body.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The [[m|en|groin]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The genitals.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The place where a branch joins the stem of a plant.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inguinālis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nūdus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}