laneus Latin · revision 33487

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂ulh₁-neh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫaː.ne.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlaː.ne.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lāneus''' (feminine lānea, neuter lāneum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lāna|-eus|t1=wool]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|lāna]] back to [[itc-pro|*wlānā-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂ulh₁-neh₂-|t=wool]], literally “plucked material”, and lists among its cognates [[grc|λῆνος|tr=lênos]], [[lt|vìlna]] and [[cy|gwlan]].^(de Vaan 2008) It survives in Romance, for example as [[fr|lange|t=swaddling cloth]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found first in Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) who has ''scutulam ob oculōs lāneam'', a woollen patch over the eyes.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it means made of wool: Cicero has a woollen cloak, Virgil a woollen fillet, and Suetonius, in the life of Augustus, a woollen undershirt.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Catullus has ''lāneum latusculum'', “a little flank as soft as wool”, and Pliny the Elder uses it of things that look or feel like wool.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) In medieval Latin it described woollen clothing and cloth, ''pannus lāneus'', in Aldhelm, Ælfric's glossary and Bede,^(DMLBS) and as a masculine noun it meant woollen cloth.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus mentions a woollen eye patch.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it of softness.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero mentions a woollen cloak.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil has a woollen fillet in the ''Georgics''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius mentions a woollen undershirt.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * Medieval Latin – Bede and other writers in Britain use it of woollen clothing.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Made of [[m|en|wool]], [[m|en|woollen]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Resembling wool in look or texture; [[m|en|soft]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Woollen cloth.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lāna]]

+ * [[lānārius]]

+ * [[lāniger]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Niermeyer also records a medieval ''laneus'' meaning a peasant's holding, as a numbered entry of its own.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}