odoratus Latin · revision 32191

+ {{homograph|1|fragrant}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *h₃ed-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔ.doːˈraː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [o.doˈraː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''odōrātus''' (feminine odōrāta, neuter odōrātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Cato has the spelling ''oderatus''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The adjective “fragrant” is [[af|la|odor|-ātus|t1=smell]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Wiktionary and Lewis & Short take it as the participle of [[m|la|odōrō|t=to perfume]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|odor]] to [[itc-pro|*odōs|t=odour]] and [[ine-pro|*h₃ed-|t=to smell]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ὄζω|tr=ózō|t=to smell]] and [[lt|úosti|t=to smell, sniff]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Cato's ''On Agriculture'', which has rush and sweet flag put into a jar to make the wine fragrant.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means having a smell, especially of a stated kind, and more often sweet-smelling or fragrant, as Virgil's fragrant laurel grove.^(OLD 2012) The TLL records the comparative from Columella and the superlative from Pliny the Elder.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of perfumed wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a fragrant laurel grove.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella has the comparative.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Having a smell of a certain kind; sweet-smelling, [[m|en|fragrant]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ {{homograph|2|sense of smell}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h₃ed-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔ.doːˈraː.tʊs], [ɔ.doːˈraː.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [o.doˈraː.tus], [o.doˈraː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''odōrātus''' ''m'' (genitive odōrātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The noun “smelling” is [[af|la|odōror|-tus|t1=to smell, scent out]], a fourth-declension noun of action.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) The verb is from [[m|la|odor|t=smell]].^(Wiktionary) Varro already connected the noun with [[m|la|odor]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short's first example is in Cicero's ''De natura deorum''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the act of smelling, as Cicero says that some things please not only the taste but also the smell and the sight, and the sense of smell, which Cicero lists with taste and Pliny the Elder ascribes to some insects.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary also gives smell or odour.^(Wiktionary) Döderlein distinguishes [[odor]], the smell a thing has in itself, from [[olfactus]], the sensation or sense of smell.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of smelling and of the sense of smell.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of the sense of smell in insects.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

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

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

+ # Smell, [[m|en|odour]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[odor]]

+ * [[odoror|alt=odōror]]

+ * [[odoro|alt=odōrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}