lanugo Latin · revision 33286

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=ine-pro *h₂ulh₁-neh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫaːˈnuː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [laˈnuː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lānūgō''' ''f'' (genitive lānūginis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lāna|-ūgō|t1=wool]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|lāna]] to [[itc-pro|*wlānā-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂ulh₁-neh₂-|t=wool]], literally “plucked material”.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|olann|t=wool]], [[cy|gwlan|t=wool]], [[lt|vìlna|t=wool]] and [[grc|λῆνος|tr=lênos|t=wool]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Pacuvius,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who has the first down on a face: ''nunc primum opacat flora lanugo genas'', “now for the first time the blooming down shades his cheeks”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is the first hair on the face, and by extension the age at which it appears, youth:^(OLD 2012) Virgil has a cheek yellow with its first down, and Juvenal an old age as venerable as that first down.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also the soft hair of animals, as in Pliny the Elder's hedgehogs with their harmless down,^(OLD 2012) and the down of plants, as on fruit in Virgil's second Eclogue.^(OLD 2012) In poetry it is used of things resembling down, as when Lucretius describes grass rich in soft down that made a bed.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary also gives a transferred sense “sawdust”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius, of the first down on a youth's cheeks.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of soft grass.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of the down on fruit and on the cheeks.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of the down of hedgehogs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The first [[m|en|hair]] on the face, [[m|en|down]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) the age at which it appears, youth.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The soft hair or down of animals or insects.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The down covering parts of some plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(poetic)'' Anything resembling down.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|sawdust|alt=Sawdust]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lanugineus]]

+ * [[lānūginōsus]]

+ * [[lānūginō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lāna]]

+ * [[lāneus]]

+ * [[lāniger]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}