fumo Latin · revision 31797

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dʰuh₂mós}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfuː.moː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈfuː.mo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fūmō''' (present infinitive fūmāre, perfect active fūmāvī, supine fūmātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[fūmus|t=smoke]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces ⟨fūmus⟩ to [[itc-pro|*fūmo-|alt=*fūmos]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰuh₂mós|alt=*dhuh2-mó-|t=smoke, fume]], cognate with [[sa|धूम|tr=dhūmá-|t=smoke]], [[grc|θυμός|tr=thūmós|t=spirit]], [[lt|dū́mai|t=smoke]] and [[cu|дымъ|tr=dymŭ|t=smoke]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Persa'' has the little hearths already smoking in a hungry man's belly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means “to smoke, give off smoke”, as of Cicero's smoking house and of altars, and as a sign of something alight or burning out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of liquids and moist things it is “to steam”, as freshly dug earth in Cicero, a hot cake in Horace and the sweating necks of Virgil's horses.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses it of mountain peaks clouded as if with smoke.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In New Latin it also means to smoke a cigarette or pipe.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of smoking hearths.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of peaks clouded with mist.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a smoking house and steaming earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|smoke]], give off smoke.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|steam]], [[m|en|fume]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be clouded as with smoke.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(New Latin)'' To smoke tobacco.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fumator]]

+ * [[fumesco]]

+ * [[fūmidus]]

+ * [[infūmō]]

+ * [[semifumans]]

+ * [[suffūmō]]

+ * [[transfūmō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fūmus]]

+ * [[en|fume]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}