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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=ine-pro *teh₂-bʰ-eh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtaː.bũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtaː.bum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tābum''' ''n'' (genitive tābī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Seneca has a masculine ''tābus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It belongs with [[tabes|alt=tābēs]] “wasting” and [[tabeo|alt=tābeō]] “to waste away”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan lists it under [[m|la|tābeō]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*tāf-ē-|t=to be melting]] and [[ine-pro|*teh₂-bʰ-eh₁-|t=to be melting]], comparing [[grc|τήκω|tr=tḗkō|t=to melt]].^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary and Köbler give the root as [[ine-pro|*teh₂-|t=to melt]], and Wiktionary counts [[en|thaw]] among its cognates.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Ennius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) whose tragedy, quoted by Cicero, has rocks spattered with gore, matter and black blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is corrupt moisture, putrid matter or gore, mostly in poetry and post-Augustan prose: Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Tacitus use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Statius applies it to the dye of the purple-fish.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transferred, it is rarely an infectious disease or plague: Virgil has carcasses dissolving in foul decay and pastures infected, Livy bodies affected by disease, and Ovid bodies pale with bloodless wasting.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it pestilence, plague, clotted blood or moisture.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of rocks spattered with gore.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of gore and of plague.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of bodies affected by disease.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of bodies pale with wasting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Putrid matter, corrupt moisture, [[m|en|gore]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(poetic)'' The dye of the purple-fish.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # An infectious disease, [[m|en|plague]], [[m|en|pestilence]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tabes|alt=tābēs]]

+ * [[tabeo|alt=tābeō]]

+ * [[tabesco|alt=tābēscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}