odoror Latin · revision 33495

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h3ed-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔˈdoː.rɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [oˈdɔː.ror]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''odōror''' (present infinitive odōrārī, perfect active odōrātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ The TLL notes an active form ''odōrō'' and the spelling ''oder-'' in Columella and Tacitus.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|odor|-ō|t1=smell]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|odor]] to [[itc-pro|*odōs|t=odour]] and the root [[ine-pro|*h3ed-|t=to smell]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ὄζω|tr=ózō|t=to smell]] and [[lt|úosti|t=to smell, sniff]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan records it from Plautus on.^(de Vaan 2008) In the ''Menaechmi'' it is to sniff at something: ''odorare hanc quam ego habeo pallam'', “smell this mantle I have”;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) in the ''Miles gloriosus'' it is to scent out, ''ibo odorans, quasi canis venaticus'', “I'll go sniffing like a hunting dog”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lucretius uses it of catching a smell,^(OLD 2012) Horace of scenting food,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Pliny the Elder of the keen scent of vultures.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the Vulgate's Job it is used of smelling the battle.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it figuratively, of men who sniff after an office, of tracing and investigating everything, and of scenting what someone thinks or what will happen.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus has someone who had only had a sniff of philosophy, ''odoratus philosophiam'', and Lactantius uses it of grasping the truth only slightly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of sniffing a mantle and scenting like a hound.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of catching a smell.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of scenting out and investigating.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a smattering of philosophy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|smell]], catch the smell of; to [[m|en|sniff]] at.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|scent]] out, detect by smell.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To get wind of; to search out, investigate; to aim at.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To take a mere sniff at (a subject), acquire a smattering of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[odōrābilis]]

+ * [[odōrātiō]]

+ * [[odōrātus#2]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[odor]]

+ * [[oleō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}