lautumiae Latin · revision 33134

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc λατομίαι}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lautumiae''' ''f pl'' (genitive lautumiārum); first declension^(OLD 2012)

+ It is also spelled ''lātomiae'' and ''lātumiae''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|λατομίαι|tr=latomíai|t=stone quarries]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it in the ''Poenulus'', where a speaker would rather spend his life in the quarries or the mill, and in the ''Captivi''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a stone quarry, especially one used as a prison.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro says that the prison at Syracuse is called ''latomiae'', and Cicero speaks of the Syracusan quarries in the Verrines.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Rome it was a district on the north-eastern side of the Capitol with quarries and a prison, where Livy has leaders of the Aetolians thrown.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In British Medieval Latin it is a quarry, stone-cutting or masonry, a prison and a punishment;^(DMLBS) Beleth explains the word from Greek words for stone and cutting.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of quarries as a punishment.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the quarries of Syracuse.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of the prison in Rome.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A stone [[m|en|quarry]], especially one used as a [[m|en|prison]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''Lautumiae'', a district of Rome by the Capitol, with a prison.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Stone-cutting, [[m|en|masonry]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

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