exuviae Latin · revision 32168

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₃eu-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈsʊ.wi.ae̯]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eɡˈzuː.vi.e]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exuviae''' ''f pl'' (genitive exuviārum); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Festus has the spelling ''exsuviae''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|exuō|-ia|t1=to take off, strip]], formed like its opposite [[m|la|induviae|t=clothing]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|exuō]] as a compound of a verb ⟨-uō⟩ to put on, from [[itc-pro|*ow-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₃eu-e/o-|t=to adorn, wear]]; he finds the formation of the nouns conspicuous and suggests that their ⟨u⟩ was taken from the verb.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xum|anouihimu|t=to put on]], [[hit|unu-|t=to adorn]] and [[lt|aũti|t=to put on shoes]].^(de Vaan 2008) Festus derived it from stripping.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates the verb from Plautus;^(de Vaan 2008) in the ''Epidicus'' the noun is the spoils a soldier gives to the enemy, and the ''Menaechmi'' sets ''induviae'' against ''exuviae''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is what is stripped off a body, and first the arms stripped from a defeated enemy, spoils.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also a thing belonging to a person kept as a keepsake, as in Virgil's eighth ''Eclogue'', “he left me these, dear pledges of himself”, and Dido's pyre with the arms and all the relics of the man.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of animals it is the skin stripped from a beast, often as a hunting trophy, and Plautus jokes about whips of oxhide; it is also the sloughed skin of a snake.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Valerius Maximus uses it of the attributes of the gods carried in processions.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Church Latin it means mortal remains.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval Latin it is mortal remains or relics, and the heriot, the best chattel due to a lord at a tenant's death.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of spoils and oxhide whips.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of keepsakes and relics.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Arms stripped from an enemy, [[m|en|spoils]]; a keepsake of a person.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The skin stripped from a beast; the sloughed skin of a snake.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The attributes of the gods carried in processions.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Mortal remains;^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976) ''(Medieval Latin)'' relics.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The [[m|en|heriot]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[exuo|alt=exuō]]

+ * [[induviae]]

+ * [[en|exuviae]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}