proluo Latin · revision 33392

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *louh₃-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōluō''' (present infinitive ''prōluere'', perfect active ''prōluī'', supine ''prōlūtum''); third conjugation^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prō-|-luō|t1=forth|t2=to wash]], a compound of the verb found in [[m|la|alluō]].^(OLD 2012) De Vaan explains the compounds in ⟨-luere⟩ as containing the verb [[m|la|lavō|t=to wash]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*lowa-]] and [[ine-pro|*louh₃-|t=to wash]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xum|vutu]] and [[grc|λούω|tr=loúō|t=I wash]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest citation in the OLD is in Plautus, of pouring wine down the throat: ''propere prolue cloacam'', “quick, flush the sewer”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and post-Augustan, absent from Cicero and found once in Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of water it means to sweep away: Caesar has a storm that washed the snow off all the mountains, and Virgil the river Eridanus sweeping away forests and the sea washing up fish on the shore like the bodies of the shipwrecked.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to wash clean or wet: Ovid has washing one's hands in running water, Silius Italicus and Statius a sword or a breast drenched in blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In poetry it is used of drinking: Horace's ''leni praecordia mulso prolueris'', “you will do better to wash your stomach with mild honey-wine”, Persius' lips not washed in the fountain of the horse (Hippocrene), and Virgil's ''pleno se proluit auro'', drinking deep from a full golden cup.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Columella uses it of grass that purges an animal's belly,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Gellius figuratively of people who washed their money away in gluttonous banquets.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives “wash off or out” for Ecclesiastical Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of washing out the stomach with wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of a storm washing away snow.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a river sweeping away forests.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius, of squandering money.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # Of water: to sweep away, [[m|en|wash away]]; to wash up (on the shore).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To wash clean, wash out; to [[m|en|drench]], flood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To wash (the mouth or stomach) with drink;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) ''sē prōluere'', to drink deep.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(figuratively)'' To [[m|en|squander]] (money).^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[prōluviēs]]

+ * [[prōluviō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lavō]]

+ * [[alluō]]

+ * [[ēluō]]

+ * [[dīluō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}