limosus Latin · revision 33884

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=2nd half of the 1st century BC, Bellum Alexandrinum|origins=la līmus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [liːˈmoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [liˈmɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''līmōsus''' (feminine līmōsa, neuter līmōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|līmus|-ōsus|t1=mud, slime]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives [[m|la|līmus]] from [[itc-pro|*(s)le/oimo-]] and connects it either with the Germanic word for loam, as [[ang|lām]], or with the Germanic and Balto-Slavic words for slime, as [[non|slím]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from the ''Bellum Alexandrinum'',^(Köbler 2010) which says the water carried by the Nile is so muddy and turbid.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means full of mud, muddy, slimy: Virgil has a muddy lake and a marsh covering pastures with rushes that grow in mud,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) and Pliny the Elder uses it of a root.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The OLD records its use for plants and animals that live in muddy places.^(OLD 2012) It is also covered with slime, as Pliny the Elder's bones slimy with pus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd half of the 1st century BC – The ''Bellum Alexandrinum'' of the muddy Nile water.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a muddy lake and muddy rushes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of slimy bones.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Full of mud, [[m|en|muddy]], [[m|en|miry]], [[m|en|marshy]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(of plants and animals)'' living in muddy places.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Covered with slime, [[m|en|slimy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[līmus]]

+ * [[lutulentus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}