litura Latin · revision 32554

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h₂li-n-H-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [lɪˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [liˈtuː.ra]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''litūra''' ''f'' (genitive litūrae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|linō|-ūra|t1=to smear]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|linō]] to [[itc-pro|*lina-|t=to smear]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂li-n-H-]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Cicero on, who has it only in his speeches;^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Cicero uses it of a fraud detected by the erasure in some accounts.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the smoothing of the wax on a writing tablet to delete something, and so an erasure or correction: Cicero asks the jury whether they see that a whole name is written over an erasure.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it in poetry from Horace on.^(TLL) Propertius has a letter blotted by tears, and Martial a body with no blemish.^(OLD 2012) Columella uses it of a smearing that keeps off sun and rain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Manuscripts sometimes confuse it with [[littera]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of an erasure in accounts.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, its first poet.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of a blot made by tears.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of a protective smearing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A smearing, daubing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An [[m|en|erasure]] on a wax tablet; a correction; a place where writing has been erased.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|blot]], [[m|en|smudge]]; a blemish.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[litūrārius]]

+ * [[litūrō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lino|alt=linō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}