fomentum Latin · revision 32411

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [foːˈmɛn.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [foˈmɛn.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fōmentum''' ''n'' (genitive fōmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|foveō|-mentum|t1=to warm, cherish]], contracted from an older ⟨*fovimentum⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan, following Schrijver, derives it from ⟨*fowe-mentum⟩ and traces [[m|la|foveō]] to [[itc-pro|*foχweje/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰogʷʰ-eie-|t=to burn]], comparing [[sa|दहति|tr=dáhati|t=burns]] and [[lt|dègti|t=to burn]].^(de Vaan 2008) Festus derived it from warming, and a scholiast on Horace says that fomenta are so called because they warm the sickness.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first, figuratively: pain is usually soothed by the remedies of patience and fortitude.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a soothing application, hot or cold, a compress or poultice, usually in the plural: Horace has someone who prepares poultices and asks the doctor to revive a sick man, and Celsus prescribes warm applications.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is a remedy, solace or alleviation, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) It is also wood for kindling, like [[fomes|alt=fōmes]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In Medieval Latin it is fuel and a stimulus or incentive.^(Niermeyer 1976) Church Latin glosses it poultice.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the remedies of patience.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of poultices for the sick.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of warm applications.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A warm or soothing application, [[m|en|compress]], [[m|en|poultice]], [[m|en|fomentation]]; usually plural.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A remedy, solace, alleviation.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Wood for kindling, [[m|en|tinder]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Niermeyer 1976) ''(Medieval Latin)'' fuel.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A stimulus, incentive.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fōmentō]]

+ * [[fōmentātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fōmes]]

+ * [[foveo|alt=foveō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}