stragulus Latin · revision 33576

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *st(e)r-n-h3-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈstraː.ɡʊ.ɫʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈstraː.ɡu.lus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''strāgulus''' (feminine strāgula, neuter strāgulum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed with [[m|la|-ulus]] on a stem ⟨strāg-⟩, as in [[m|la|strāgēs|t=overthrow, heap]],^(OLD 2012) and belongs with [[m|la|sternō|t=to spread, strew]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sternō]] to [[itc-pro|*sterna-]] and [[ine-pro|*st(e)r-n-h3-|t=to spread, strew]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|स्तृणाति|tr=str̥ṇā́ti|t=spreads out, strews]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who has ''vestis strāgula'', coverings, in his speech for Roscius of Amerinus and in the Verrines.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it is used mainly in ''vestis strāgula'' or ''vestīmenta strāgula'', cloth used as bedding, blankets, rugs, coverlets or carpets,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) as in Cicero, Livy and Horace.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The jurist Labeo, quoted in the Digest, says every pallium is ''stragula vestis'', what the Greeks call [[m|grc|περίστρωμα|tr=perístrōma]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a noun the feminine ''strāgula'' is a pall over a corpse in Petronius and a horse-cloth in the Digest, and the neuter ''strāgulum'' is a spread, rug or mattress:^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro explains that this was called ''strāgulum'' from spreading, ''a sternendo''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero and Tibullus use it of a bedspread, and Petronius and Suetonius of the cover over a body.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Church Latin it is a bedspread or blanket, and ''strāgula'' a pall.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of coverings and bedspreads.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, on the name ''strāgulum''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius, of a pall over a corpse.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Serving for covering or spreading;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''vestis strāgula'', a [[m|en|blanket]], coverlet, rug, [[m|en|carpet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''strāgula'': a [[m|en|pall]] over a corpse; a horse-cloth.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''strāgulum'': a spread, rug, [[m|en|mattress]], [[m|en|bedspread]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[strāgula]]

+ * [[strāgulum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sternō]]

+ * [[strāgēs]]

+ * [[strātum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}