tugurium Latin · revision 32974

+ {{infobox|confidence=disputed|attested=230/220–168 BC, Caecilius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [tʊˈɡʊ.ri.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [tuˈɡuː.ri.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tugurium''' ''n'' (genitive tuguriī or tugurī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions have ''tegurium'' and ''tigurium''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Its origin is unclear.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD thinks it perhaps a foreign loanword, but notes that it was associated early with [[tego|alt=tegō]] “to cover”, as the jurist Pomponius does.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short derive it from that verb,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Wiktionary from [[ine-pro|*(s)teg-|t=to cover with a roof]], comparing [[grc|στέγω|tr=stégō]] and [[sga|tech|t=house]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short quote it from Afranius and Caecilius, preserved by Festus, and in Varro.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a hut or cottage, the primitive dwelling of shepherds and peasants: Varro, Cicero and Virgil use it, and so do Columella, Pliny the Elder and Valerius Maximus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it hut, cabin or cottage.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it is the canopy over an altar or a saint's tomb, the same as ''cibōrium''.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 230/220–168 BC – Caecilius uses the word.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * second half of the 2nd century BC – Afranius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of a rustic hut.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses the word.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|hut]], [[m|en|cottage]], shack; any primitive dwelling.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|canopy]] over an altar or tomb.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[tuguriolum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tego|alt=tegō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}