papilla Latin · revision 32590

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la papula}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [paˈpɪl.la]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [paˈpil.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''papilla''' ''f'' (genitive papillae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a diminutive, [[af|la|papula|-illa|t1=pimple, pustule]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler compares Pokorny's root [[ine-pro|*pap-|t=to swell]].^(Köbler 2010) Festus explained the name by the likeness of nipples to pimples, and Isidore by the way infants suck at them.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Isidore)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus, who has a character admire a pretty little nipple.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the nipple or teat of an animal or person: Varro wants bitches with even teats, Columella writes of an udder, and Pliny the Elder of the teats of dolphins.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Festus uses it of a protuberance like a nipple, the wattles that hang from goats' throats.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary adds the poetic sense breast, the medical sense pustule, and a rosebud.^(Wiktionary) English took it as [[m|en|papilla]] in the 1690s, for a nipple and later for any small nipple-like bump.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a nipple.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of the teats of dogs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of the teats of dolphins.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1690s – English borrows it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|nipple]], [[m|en|teat]], of animals or people; poetically, the breast.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A nipple-like protuberance; a pustule; a rosebud.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[papillātus]]

+ * [[papillāris]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[papula]]

+ * [[en|papilla]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}