remugio Latin · revision 33410

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=ine-pro *mū̆g-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈmuː.ɡi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈmuː.d͡ʒi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''remūgiō''' (present infinitive remūgīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|mūgiō|t1=back, again|t2=to low, bellow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan calls [[m|la|mūgiō]] an imitation of a cow's lowing and traces it to [[itc-pro|*mūg-]] and [[ine-pro|*mū̆g-]], cognate with [[grc|μυκάομαι|tr=mukáomai|t=to low, bellow]] and [[lt|mū̃kti|t=to bellow]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Georges records it in Catullus, of a light drum that booms back.^(Georges 1913) Virgil uses it of a voice that resounds, echoed by the woods: ''vox adsensu nemorum ingeminata remugit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a poetic word.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has the literal sense, to moo in reply: ''ad mea verba remugis'', “you answer my words with lowing”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More often it means to answer with a deep, booming sound, as the Sibyl does from her cave in Virgil,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) or to resound, usually with an ablative: Virgil's whole grove booms with groans, Horace's Ionian gulf with the south wind, and in Seneca's tragedies a grove with barking.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Statius still uses it of a grove that resounds with another warrior.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus, of a drum.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a voice and of woods that resound.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace, of the sea booming with the wind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, “to moo in reply”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius, of a grove.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|moo]] or [[m|en|bellow]] in reply; to answer with a deep, booming sound.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # Of places, usually with an ablative, to [[m|en|resound]], [[m|en|re-echo]]; of a deep sound, to reverberate.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mūgiō]]

+ * [[mūgītus]]

+ * [[reboō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Ancient commentators distinguished it from the simple verb: Claudius Donatus says that ''mugit'' is said of the place where the lowing starts, ''remugit'' of what is struck by another's lowing and gives the sound back, and Servius explains Virgil's ''reboant'' with ''resultant'' and ''remugiunt''.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}