mugitus Latin · revision 32591

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *mū̆g-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [muːˈɡiː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [muˈd͡ʒiː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''mūgītus''' ''m'' (genitive mūgītūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|mūgiō|-tus|t1=to low, bellow]], an action noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan calls [[m|la|mūgiō]] an onomatopoeic imitation of a cow's lowing, and reconstructs [[itc-pro|*mūg-]] and [[ine-pro|*mū̆g-]].^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[grc|μυκάομαι|tr=mukáomai|t=to low, bellow]] and [[hit|mūgae-zi|t=to invoke, entreat]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro, whom the OLD quotes first for the lowing of cattle.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short find it in classical writers: Virgil has the lowing of oxen, and Ovid the phrases ⟨mūgītūs edere⟩ and ⟨mūgītūs dare⟩, to low.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Virgil's ''Eclogues'' the daughters of Proetus, who thought they were cows, fill the fields with false lowing.^(TLL) Pliny the Elder applies it to the deep bellow of a wild beast, and Seneca to the roaring of angry people.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it of any deep rumbling noise, as the roaring of the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler finds it in the Bible.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of cattle lowing.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the rumbling of the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of oxen and of false lowing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of the roaring of angry people.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|lowing]] or [[m|en|bellowing]] of cattle; a similar noise of other animals; a roar of anger or grief.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Any deep sustained noise, [[m|en|rumbling]], roaring.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mūgiō]]

+ * [[mūgītor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}