purgamentum Latin · revision 33225

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *péh₂-ur}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pūrgāmentum''' ''n'' (genitive pūrgāmentī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pūrgō|-mentum|t1=to cleanse]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan, after Dunkel, thinks that [[m|la|pūrgō]], early ⟨pūrigāre⟩, contains the word for “fire” rather than [[m|la|pūrus|t=clean]], since a compound of the adjective would have kept a long vowel; it would first have meant leading fire about to purify.^(de Vaan 2008) He traces that word to [[itc-pro|*pūr]] and [[ine-pro|*péh₂-ur|t=fire]], cognate with [[xum|pir|t=fire]] and [[grc|πῦρ|tr=pûr|t=fire]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Varro has it first,^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008) reporting that the Sabines call a means of purifying, ''februum'', a ''purgāmentum''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Usually in the plural it is what is cleaned away, refuse or filth: Livy calls the Cloaca Maxima the receptacle of all the city's filth, and Tacitus has the refuse of gardens.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder has scraps from a dinner on the floor and onion peelings.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Contemptuously it is the dregs of a class of people, as Curtius' scum of slaves,^(OLD 2012) and Curtius also calls pearls what the sea throws up, valued at the price that lust sets.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin has “refuse”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of a means of purifying.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of the city's filth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius, of the scum of slaves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of garden refuse.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A means of cleansing or [[m|en|purification|alt=purifying]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(usually plural)'' What is cleaned away, [[m|en|refuse]], [[m|en|filth]], sweepings.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(contemptuous)'' The dregs or [[m|en|scum]] of a class of people.^(OLD 2012)

+ # What the sea throws up.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pūrgō]]

+ * [[pūrgātiō]]

+ * [[expūrgō]]

+ * [[pūrus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}