palla Latin · revision 31575

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''palla''' ''f'' (genitive pallae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan finds no etymology: a preform such as ⟨*pHl-⟩ with some suffix, or a root as in [[pellis|t=skin]], is possible, but it may well be a loanword.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary reports Höfler's proposal of [[itc-pro|*palasā]], from [[ine-pro|*pĺ̥h₂seh₂]], cognate with the Hittite word for a woman's garment.^(Wiktionary) Lewis and Short relate it to ⟨pellis⟩, and Köbler to a root [[ine-pro|*pel-|t=to cover]] (Pokorny 803).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010) Varro, reported by Servius, derived it from Greek “to shake”, from its folds and movement.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) In Plautus a husband is asked whether he has stolen the ''palla'' to give to a prostitute.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the long rectangular mantle worn by Roman women out of doors, fastened with brooches.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Worn by men it is a garment of non-Romans, as Ovid's Apollo whose palla dyed in Tyrian purple sweeps the ground, and it was a stage costume, as the gilded palla of a lyre-player.^(OLD 2012) Celsus uses it of a covering.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Church Latin it is a pall: an altar cloth, a curtain, a cover for the chalice or a coffin.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin also used it for a cover, a shroud, a corporal, and the globe among the royal insignia.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a wife's mantle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' of a stage costume.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 538/539–594 AD – Gregory of Tours.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A woman's long rectangular [[m|en|mantle]], fastened with brooches.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A mantle worn by foreigners or gods; a stage costume.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A covering, curtain.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|pall]], altar cloth; a cover for the chalice or a coffin; a [[m|en|corporal]].^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A shroud; the royal [[m|en|orb]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pallium]]

+ * [[pallula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stola]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}