stramentum Latin · revision 32902

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *st(e)r-n-h₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [straːˈmɛn.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [straˈmɛn.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''strāmentum''' ''n'' (genitive strāmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sternō|-mentum|t1=to spread]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary takes it as a variant of [[stramen|alt=strāmen]] with that suffix.^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sternō]] to [[itc-pro|*sterna-]] and [[ine-pro|*st(e)r-n-h₃-|t=to spread, strew]], comparing [[sa|स्तृणाति|tr=str̥ṇā́ti|t=to spread out, strew]] and [[grc|στόρνυμι|tr=stórnumi]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has someone spend the whole night on straw bedding.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is straw or other litter used as rough bedding, mostly in the plural, and straw for other uses: Cato wraps a graft in straw against frost, Livy has the crop cut with its straw, and Hirtius bundles of straw set alight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro uses it of the stalk of grain.^(OLD 2012) In the plural it is the covering laid on a pack animal so the load does not chafe: Caesar has the packsaddles taken off a great number of mules.^(OLD 2012) The jurist Gaius uses it of blankets and rugs, without which no one can live.^(OLD 2012) In Medieval Latin it is a prayer rug.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of straw bedding.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of straw wrapped round a graft.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of packsaddles.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius of blankets and rugs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|straw|alt=Straw]] or other [[m|en|litter]] used as bedding; straw for other uses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A stalk of grain.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(plural)'' The covering of a pack animal, [[m|en|packsaddle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(plural)'' Blankets, rugs.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A prayer [[m|en|rug]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[strāmentārius]]

+ * [[strāmentīcius]]

+ * [[strāmentor]]

+ * [[substramentum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sterno|alt=sternō]]

+ * [[stramen|alt=strāmen]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}