lembus Latin · revision 33422

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc λέμβος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫɛm.bʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlɛm.bus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lembus''' ''m'' (genitive lembī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts also have ''limbus'' and ''lymbus''.^(TLL)

+ It is occasionally feminine, and the glossaries have a feminine ''lemba''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|λέμβος|tr=lémbos|t=a small boat]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Saalfeld 1874) The Greek word is perhaps of Illyrian origin.^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found first in Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who has ''lembo advehitur tuus pater pauxillulo'', “your father is coming in a tiny boat”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a small, fast boat with a sharp prow,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) used of a fisherman's boat in Accius,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and as a light warship: Livy writes of a fleet of them,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Curtius of pirate boats.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has a simile of a man who can barely drive his boat against the current with oars.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein groups it with ''celox'' and ''liburna'' as boats that could be manned and armed for war, unlike the skiffs ''scapha'', ''cymba'' and ''linter''.^(Döderlein 1874) Fulgentius explains it as a very fast small ship, also called ''dromo''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a small boat.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius uses it of a fisherman's boat.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it in a simile in the ''Georgics''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy writes of a fleet of ''lembī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius writes of pirate boats.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 500 AD – Fulgentius explains it as a fast boat also called ''dromo''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small, fast-sailing [[m|en|boat]] with a sharp prow; a [[m|en|cutter]], [[m|en|pinnace]], also used as a light warship.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lembulus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[celox]]

+ * [[liburna]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD and the TLL have a second ''lembus'', a variant of [[limbus]];^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Niermeyer records it in Medieval Latin.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}