corymbus Latin · revision 33570

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=grc κόρυμβος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corymbus''' ''m'' (genitive corymbī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κόρυμβος|tr=kórumbos|t=top, peak; cluster of fruit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary connects the Greek word with [[m|grc|κορυφή|tr=koruphḗ|t=head, top]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Virgil on,^(Köbler 2010) meaning a cluster of ivy berries: the ''Eclogues'' have ''diffusos hedera vestit pallente corymbos'', of spreading clusters clothed with pale ivy.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used above all of the clusters of ivy berries, as in the wreaths of Bacchus in Propertius and of Osiris in Tibullus,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and then of any cluster of flowers or fruit, as in Columella and Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Valerius Flaccus the plural means the ornamented stern of a ship, after the Greek neuter plural.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) The medical poet Serenus Sammonicus uses it of the nipple, and the poem ''Aetna'' of a mound of earth.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In medieval British Latin it still means a cluster of ivy berries or grapes, glossed in Old English.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of ivy clusters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 55–19/18 BC – Tibullus, of a wreath of clusters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of flower clusters.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 639–709 AD – Aldhelm, of berry clusters.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|cluster]] of [[m|en|ivy]] berries; any cluster of flowers or fruit.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(plural)'' The ornamented [[m|en|stern]] of a ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # The [[m|en|nipple]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[corymbifer]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|corymb]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}