levamen Latin · revision 33212

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=ine-pro *h₁legʷʰ-u-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫɛˈwaː.mɛn]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [leˈvaː.men]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''levāmen''' ''n'' (genitive levāminis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|levō#1|-men|t1=to lighten, relieve]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|levō#1]] is made from [[m|la|levis#1|t=light]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*leχu-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁legʷʰ-u-|t=light]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Catullus, who calls something a sweet relief to the weary traveller in his sweat.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is whatever relieves or mitigates, a solace or comfort, and Lewis & Short call it mostly poetic.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In verse the nominative stands only at the end of a hexameter.^(TLL) Cicero writes to Atticus that if there were any relief, it would lie in him alone.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Virgil's ''Aeneid'' Anchises is lost, the solace of every care and misfortune.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy also has it in prose, and the ablative appears only from Dictys and Symmachus.^(TLL) Church Latin has “alleviation, rest, consolation”.^(Stelten 1995) It continues in Old Italian ''levame''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus, of relief for a weary traveller.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, in a letter to Atticus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of Anchises as solace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy has it in prose.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|alleviation]], [[m|en|mitigation]], relief.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A [[m|en|solace]], consolation, comfort.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[levō#1]]

+ * [[levis#1]]

+ * [[levāmentum]]

+ * [[sōlācium]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate ''lēvāmen'', from [[m|la|lēvō#2|t=to make smooth]], appears in a glossary as a tool for smoothing.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}