paludatus Latin · revision 33710

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pa.ɫuːˈdaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pa.luˈdaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''palūdātus''' (feminine palūdāta, neuter palūdātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed with the suffix [[m|la|-ātus]] on a stem ⟨*palud-⟩, which the OLD and Köbler connect with [[m|la|palla|t=mantle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary instead derives it from [[m|la|Palūda]], a name of Minerva in military dress.^(Wiktionary) Priscian derives it from [[m|la|palūdāmentum|t=military cloak]] and insists that it is a noun, not a participle.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Lucilius.^(Köbler 2010) Varro explains that a general who goes out to war with his lictors is said to set out ''palūdātus''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used above all of a commander leaving for his province or for war in the general's cloak: Cicero asks men who set out cloaked for their provinces whether anyone thought them consuls, and writes that “our Pansa” left in his cloak;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Caesar has consuls leaving ''palūdātī'', and in Suetonius' life of Claudius the emperor presides in a general's cloak.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Seneca says that men praise acts that would be punished with death if done in secret, because men in uniform did them.^(Georges 1913) Festus has cloaked maidens, and Juvenal generals.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Claudian calls the imperial court ''palūdāta''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) In Sidonius the plural ''palūdātī'' are soldiers, as against civilians in tunics.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius has the word.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of a general setting out for war.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of magistrates leaving for their provinces.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of consuls leaving the city.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 431–486 AD – Sidonius, of soldiers.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Wearing a [[m|en|military]] [[m|en|cloak]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of a general, in the general's cloak, setting out for war.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Late Latin, plural as noun)'' Soldiers.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[palūdāmentum]]

+ * [[palla]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}