lautitia Latin · revision 33729

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lautitia''' ''f'' (genitive lautitiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lautus|-itia|t1=elegant, sumptuous]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Köbler connects [[m|la|lautus]] with [[m|la|lavō|t=to wash]],^(Köbler 2010) and Festus already derived the noun from washing.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) writing to a friend that he will hear the rumour of his new luxury.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a sumptuous way of life, especially in house and table.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Pliny the Elder calls a three-dish dinner the height of luxury in dining, and says columns were not used in temples for show;^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca speaks of luxury that turns to dinners.^(Georges 1913) The plural is luxurious fittings or dishes: Petronius' guests admire the luxuries, and Suetonius calls Caesar very fond of elegance and luxury.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Festus glosses it as the splendour of feasts, and also names a flour of wheat sprinkled with water ''lautitia''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL notes that manuscripts confuse it with ''laetitia''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of his new luxurious life.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius, of luxuries at a dinner.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of luxurious dining.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius, of Caesar's taste for luxury.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Elegance of living, sumptuousness, [[m|en|luxury]], [[m|en|splendour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(plural)'' Luxurious fittings; dainty dishes.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lautus]]

+ * [[lavō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}