pallens Latin · revision 32515

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=itc-pro *palwo-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pallēns''', genitive pallentis; third-declension one-termination adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as an adjective, it is the present participle [[der|la|palleō|t=to be pale]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan connects [[m|la|palleō]] with [[itc-pro|*palwo-|t=pale, grey]] and compares [[lt|pal̃vas|t=light yellow, straw-coloured]] and [[goh|falo|t=faded]]; since those point to *polwo-, which would not explain the Latin ⟨a⟩, he suggests that the word may have been borrowed into the European languages.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lucretius speaks of strangely pale images of the dead;^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler's first author is the Tibullan collection.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It describes people pale or wan from illness, death or emotion, and especially the pale dwellers of the underworld.^(OLD 2012) It also describes things that make one pale, as Tacitus' fame that brings pallor.^(OLD 2012) Of other things it is pale-coloured, as Lucan's pale bones and the poet Macer's pale saffron, and of places or light dim: Virgil says that the sun never scatters the pale shadows of the far north.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it pale in colour, pallid.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of pale images of the dead.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of fame that makes one pale.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|pale|alt=Pale]], [[m|en|wan]], of people; of the dead in the underworld; causing paleness.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Pale-coloured, [[m|en|pallid]]; of plants, pale green or yellow.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of places or light, [[m|en|dim]], devoid of brightness.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[palleo|alt=palleō]]

+ * [[pallidus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}