flabrum Latin · revision 33341

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *bhleh1-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈfɫaː.brũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈflaː.brum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flābrum''' ''n'' (genitive flābrī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|flō|-brum|t1=to blow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|flō]], with a question mark, to [[ine-pro|*bhleh1-|t=to blow]], perhaps related to [[m|la|fleō|t=to weep]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Lucretius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a gust or blast of wind;^(OLD 2012) the OLD's quotations have only the plural ''flābra'', and Georges notes that the plural is usual, as Servius observed on Virgil's ''Georgics''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It is used by Lucretius, Virgil and other poets.^(Georges 1913) Macrobius has the singular, of air set in motion by a gust.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, in the ''Georgics''.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st half of the 5th century AD – Macrobius, with the singular.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|gust]] or [[m|en|blast]] of wind, a breeze (usually plural).^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[flō]]

+ * [[flābellum]]

+ * [[flāmen#2]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}