remigium Latin · revision 32152

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁reh₁-(s)mo-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [reːˈmɪ.ɡi.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈmiː.d͡ʒi.um]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''rēmigium''' ''n'' (genitive rēmigiī or rēmigī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Lucretius has the genitive ''rēmigī''.^(TLL)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|rēmex|t=rower]], with the suffix [[m|la|-ium]], as the TLL takes it after Leumann; the OLD and Wiktionary derive it from the verb [[m|la|rēmigō|t=to row]].^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists [[m|la|rēmex]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|rēmus|t=oar]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*rē(s)mo-|t=oar]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁reh₁-(s)mo-|t=oar]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ἐρετμόν|tr=eretmón|t=oar]], [[lt|ìrti|t=to row]], [[sga|raïd|t=to row]] and [[ang|rōwan|t=to row]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who in the ''Bacchides'' says that once they left harbour men followed them with oars.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is the outfit of oars of a ship, and so the rowing itself, as Virgil's rowers who wear out night and day with rowing, and Pliny the Elder's harbour ten days' rowing from a town.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The poets transfer it to the legs of a swimming horse, as Statius does, and to the wings of a bird.^(OLD 2012) It also means the rowers as a body, a crew, as in Virgil's “he makes up the crew”.^(OLD 2012) Glossaries render it with [[grc|κωπηλασία|tr=kōpēlasía|t=rowing]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of rowing and of a ship's crew.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a distance measured in days of rowing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius of a swimming horse's legs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A ship's outfit of [[m|en|oar|alt=oars]], [[m|en|oarage]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The action of [[m|en|rowing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(poetic)'' Legs used in swimming; wings.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A crew of rowers.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[remus|alt=rēmus]]

+ * [[remex|alt=rēmex]]

+ * [[remigo|alt=rēmigō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}