ululo Latin · revision 32874

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=onomatopoeia|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈʊ.ɫʊ.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈuː.lu.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ululō''' (present infinitive ululāre, perfect active ululāvī, supine ululātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is an imitative verb for a sound in /u/.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan notes that ⟨ul-⟩ or ⟨ulul-⟩ may already have existed in Proto-Indo-European, but this cannot be proved.^(de Vaan 2008) Similar words are [[sa|उलूक|tr=úlūka|t=owl]] and [[grc|ὑλάω|tr=huláō|t=to bark]]; the OLD compares [[grc|ὀλολύζω|tr=ololúzō|t=to cry aloud]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Ennius.^(de Vaan 2008) In the OLD's earliest quotation, from Ennius, a hunting dog sniffs and howls shrilly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used of animals, especially dogs and wolves, and of ghosts howling.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of people it is a long cry of grief or distress, a battle cry, or a ritual cry: Virgil has nymphs crying out on the mountain top at a wedding and women shrieking in battle.^(OLD 2012) With an object it is to call on or celebrate with howling, as Hecate howled to at crossroads, and to fill a place with howling.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to shout, shriek, wail.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|ululate]] comes from it, from the 1620s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of a hunting dog.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of human cries in grief, battle and ritual, and of Hecate howled to.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1620s – English [[m|en|ululate]] is formed from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # Of animals and ghosts, to [[m|en|howl]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of people, to utter long cries, [[m|en|wail]] in grief, yell in battle, cry out in a rite.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # With an object, to call on or celebrate with howling; to fill a place with howling.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exululō]]

+ * [[ulula]]

+ * [[ululābilis]]

+ * [[ululamen]]

+ * [[ululātiō]]

+ * [[ululātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|ululate]]

+ * [[en|howl]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}