lippus Latin · revision 32763

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lippus''' (feminine lippa, neuter lippum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts also spell it ''lyppus'' and ''lipus''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is perhaps [[inh|itc-pro|*l(e)ipo-]], from [[ine-pro|*l(e)ip-o-|t=sticky, fat]], with the doubled stop of many Latin adjectives for physical defects; de Vaan compares [[grc|λίπος|tr=lípos|t=fat]] but finds the link in meaning not compelling.^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD compares [[sa|लिम्पति|tr=limpáti|t=smears]] and [[grc|ἀλείφω|tr=aleíphō|t=to anoint]].^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that this comparison has to assume a popular doubling of the consonant and a shifted sense.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in whose ''Miles Gloriosus'' someone asks whether he looks bleary-eyed.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It describes a person with watery or inflamed eyes, and the eyes themselves: in the ''Persa'' someone says his master cannot keep his hands off him any more than a bleary eye can be left alone.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Vitruvius uses it of eyes, and Martial of an eye socket.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary also gives half-blind, and figuratively blind to one's own faults.^(Wiktionary) The TLL records descendants in Langobardic and Catalan.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of bleary eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of an eye socket.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Having watery, [[m|en|bleary]] or [[m|en|inflamed]] eyes; of the eyes, bleary.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Half-blind, [[m|en|purblind]].^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Blind to one's own faults.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lippitūdō]]

+ * [[lippulus]]

+ * [[lippōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lippēscō]]

+ * [[lippidus]]

+ * [[lippiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}