humo Latin · revision 32893

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈhʊ.moː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''humō''' (present infinitive humāre, perfect active humāvī, supine humātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|humus|-ō|t1=earth, ground]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|humus]] to [[itc-pro|*χomo-]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰǵʰ-ōm|t=earth]], comparing [[osc|húnttram|t=who is below]]; the TLL compares [[grc|χθών|tr=khthṓn|t=earth]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) Cicero explained the word from the bodies laid in the earth and covered with soil.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro,^(de Vaan 2008) who says a dead man is buried who is covered with earth.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to bury, inter.^(OLD 2012) Cicero notes that what was properly said of those covered with earth was by his time said of all the dead, and so it came to mean disposing of a body by any rite.^(OLD 2012) He also tells of a man who buried an unknown corpse he found lying unburied.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it rare but classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein says it means laying in the earth, the last part of a burial, unlike [[sepelio|alt=sepeliō]], the proper term for the whole rite.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it to bury, inter.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of burial in the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero on the word and its wider use.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To cover with earth, [[m|en|bury]], [[m|en|inter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To dispose of a body by any rite; to perform funeral rites.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[circumhumatus]]

+ * [[humātiō]]

+ * [[humātor]]

+ * [[inhumātus]]

+ * [[inhumō]]

+ * [[obhumo]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[humus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}