furialis Latin · revision 33158

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la furō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [fʊ.riˈaː.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [fu.riˈaː.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''furiālis''' (neuter furiāle, adverb furiāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|furia|-ālis|t1=rage; a Fury]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan derives [[m|la|furia]] from [[m|la|furō|t=to rage]], for which, he says, many etymologies have been proposed and none is clearly the best.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks in the ''In Pisonem'' of criminals terrified by the burning torches of the Furies.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is belonging to the Furies, avenging, and Ovid extends it to places haunted by them, as the table of Atreus.^(OLD 2012) It then means like a Fury, as Cicero's furious cries at public meetings,^(OLD 2012) and frenzied or mad, as Ovid's mad daring.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also has a maddening robe, and Virgil the Fury-like limbs that Allecto puts off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the Furies' torches and of maddening clothing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of Allecto's limbs.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of mad daring.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or belonging to the [[m|en|Furies]]; [[m|en|avenging]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Haunted by the Furies; invoking them.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Like a Fury, raging, [[m|en|fearful]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Inspired by frenzy, frenzied, mad.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Causing madness, [[m|en|maddening]], infuriating.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[furia]]

+ * [[furō]]

+ * [[furor#2]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}