conchylium Latin · revision 33021

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=grc κογχύλιον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔŋˈkʰyː.li.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [koŋˈkiː.li.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''conchȳlium''' ''n'' (genitive conchȳliī or conchȳlī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Celsus has ''conculium''.^(OLD 2012)

+ Manuscripts often confuse ''conchyl-'' and ''conc(h)il-''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κογχύλιον|tr=konkhúlion|t=small mussel]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) from [[m|grc|κόγχη|tr=kónkhē|t=mussel]].^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Lucretius,^(Köbler 2010) who has the colour of the purple shellfish.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a mollusc or shellfish, and especially the oyster: Cicero describes a table piled not with shellfish or fish but with half-rotten meat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In particular it is the purple-fish; it also means the purple dye and purple cloth made from it: Catullus has purple dyed with the rosy dye of the shellfish, and Cicero speaks of things dyed with nothing but purple.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses the plural of purple garments, and gives it as a name of the plant ''iasine''.^(OLD 2012) Isidore of Seville says the [[murex]] is a sea snail also called ''conchylium'', which when cut gives tears of purple colour.^(TLL) English ''cockle'' (early 14th century) comes, through Old French ''coquille'', from a Vulgar Latin ''*conchilia'' from this word.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of purple colour.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of shellfish and of purple dye.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of the purple-fish.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville of the murex.^(TLL)

+ * early 14th century – English ''cockle''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|shellfish]], mollusc; an [[m|en|oyster]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The purple-fish; purple dye; cloth dyed [[m|en|purple]], (plural) purple garments.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A name of the plant ''iasine''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[conchȳliātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[concha]]

+ * [[en|cockle]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}