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+ {{infobox|confidence=unknown|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īlia''' ''n pl'' (genitive īlium); third declension^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ Lewis & Short list it under a singular ''īle''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Singular forms are rare and partly conjectural.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ De Vaan finds no etymology: the Germanic words that Walde and Hofmann compared have a short vowel, and the Greek [[m|grc|ἴλια|tr=ília]] “female parts”, a gloss of Hesychius, may be a borrowing from Latin.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler cites Pokorny's [[ine-pro|*īli-]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Catullus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has a lover bursting the loins of all.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the side of the body from the hips to the groin, the flanks.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) In medicine Celsus places it between the hips and the pubes at the bottom of the belly.^(OLD 2012) It is used especially of the groin or private parts, as in Catullus.^(OLD 2012) As a cut of meat it is the flank: Horace has the untasted flanks of a turbot and Martial those of a boar.^(OLD 2012) It is also the guts: Horace exclaims at the tough guts of reapers.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of a lover's loins.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a turbot's flanks and of reapers' guts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus in medicine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(plural)'' The side of the body from the hips to the [[m|en|groin]], the [[m|en|flank|alt=flanks]]; the groin.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ # The flank as a cut of meat.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The guts, [[m|en|entrails]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Īlia'' is also a poetic name of the mother of Romulus and Remus, Rhea Silvia, from Ennius on.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}