plangor Latin · revision 33350

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=86/82 BC, Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=ine-pro *plh₂-n-g-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɫaŋ.ɡɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈplaŋ.ɡor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''plangor''' ''m'' (genitive plangōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|plangō|-or|t1=to beat, lament]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|plangō]] to [[itc-pro|*plāng-e/o-|t=to hit]] and the present [[ine-pro|*plh₂-n-g-|t=to hit]]; the sense moved from hitting oneself on the breast to wailing and mourning.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|πλάζω|tr=plázō|t=to drive off course]] and [[osx|flōkan|t=to curse]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'',^(Köbler 2010) which speaks of women using the beating of the breast and blows to the head in mourning: ''feminis plangore et capitis ictu … uti''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the beating or striking of something with a noise, as the waves that sound with a gentle splashing laughter in Catullus,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and above all the beating of the breast, arms or face as a sign of grief, as often in Ovid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From this it came to mean loud mourning, wailing, lamentation:^(OLD 2012) Cicero has a diadem put on amid the lamentation of the people, and Virgil a house howling with women's wailing.^(OLD 2012) Ovid has ''plangōrem dare'', to raise a lament,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Apuleius has a whole day spent in tears and laments.^(OLD 2012) In medieval British Latin it means lamentation.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of beating the breast in grief.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus, of the splashing of waves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the lamentation of the people.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of women's wailing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A beating, striking, with a noise; a splashing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The beating of the breast or head in [[m|en|grief]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|lamentation|alt=Lamentation]], loud mourning, [[m|en|wailing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plangimōnium]]

+ * [[plangō]]

+ * [[plāga#1]]

+ * [[en|plangent]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}