lotium Latin · revision 33808

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *(le-)louh₃-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫoː.ti.ũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlɔt.t͡si.um]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lōtium''' ''n'' (genitive lōtiī or lōtī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lōtus|-ium]], from the participle of [[m|la|lavō|t=to wash]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary explains the name by the wide use of urine for washing and bleaching,^(Wiktionary) and Isidore already said the fluid was commonly so called because clothes washed in it were made clean.^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|lavō]] to [[itc-pro|*lowa-]] and [[ine-pro|*(le-)louh₃-|t=to wash]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Cato,^(TLL) who says that cabbage is good for the bowels and the urine.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL notes that in verse it occurs in Catullus, and Isidore says it is the everyday word, while ''ūrīna'' is the proper term, used throughout by the technical writers.^(TLL) Petronius has the proverb ''nōn valet lōtium suum'', of a good-for-nothing.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Manuscripts also spell it ⟨loteum⟩ and ⟨lutium⟩.^(TLL) The TLL records descendants in Piedmontese and southern Sardinian, the latter mixed with ''lutum'' “mud”.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of urine.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus, in verse.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius, in a proverb.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore explains the name from washing.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|urine|alt=Urine]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lōtiolentus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lavō]]

+ * [[ūrīna]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}