ululatus Latin · revision 32575

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=la ululō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ʊ.ɫʊˈɫaː.tʊs], [ʊ.ɫʊˈɫaː.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [u.luˈlaː.tus], [u.luˈlaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ululātus''' ''m'' (genitive ululātūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ululō|-tus|t1=to howl]], an action noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan calls [[m|la|ululō]] an onomatopoeic verb for a sound like ⟨u⟩; it may go back to Proto-Indo-European, but this cannot be proved.^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[sa|उलूक|tr=úlūka-|t=owl]], [[grc|ὑλάω|tr=hulláō|t=to bark]] and [[goh|ūla|t=owl]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Caesar, who writes of a victory shouted out with yells;^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call them the war cries of the Gauls.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is any drawn-out cry: of grief, as the women's wailing that fills the houses in the ''Aeneid''; of triumph or defiance, as in Caesar; of religious frenzy, as of the Maenads in Catullus.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of a dog howling for its dead master.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it also in Ovid, Curtius and Statius.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it wailing, shrieking, howling.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of yells of victory.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of the cries of Maenads.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a dog howling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|howling]], wailing, [[m|en|yell]]: of grief; of triumph or defiance; of religious frenzy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The howling of dogs or wolves.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ululo|alt=ululō]]

+ * [[ulula]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}