savium Latin · revision 32751

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sueh₂d-u-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsaː.wi.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsaː.vi.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sāvium''' ''n'' (genitive sāviī or sāvī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''suāvium''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is apparently [[af|la|suāvis|-ium|t1=sweet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary reconstructs [[itc-pro|*swāwiom]], whose first /w/ was lost by dissimilation.^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|suāvis]] to [[itc-pro|*swādu-|t=sweet]] and [[ine-pro|*sueh₂d-u-|t=sweet]], comparing [[sa|स्वादु|tr=svādú-|t=sweet]] and [[grc|ἡδύς|tr=hēdús|t=sweet]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in whose ''Curculio'' whoever wants to lie with a woman opens the way with kisses.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a kiss, usually an erotic one, and a term of endearment: in the ''Cistellaria'' someone was called “little honey” and “her kiss”.^(OLD 2012) It is also the lips puckered for kissing, as in the ''Miles Gloriosus''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short find it mostly before the classical period and especially in Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of kisses and of puckered lips.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius quotes a poet on a half-open kiss.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|kiss]], usually an erotic one;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) a term of endearment.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The lips puckered for kissing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[suavis|alt=suāvis]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Servius, as Lewis & Short report, distinguished three words for a kiss: [[osculum]] belongs to religion and ⟨sāvium⟩ to pleasure, and some say that one gives an ⟨ōsculum⟩ to sons, a [[basium|alt=bāsium]] to a wife and a ⟨sāvium⟩ to a harlot.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}