prelum Latin · revision 33897

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *pr-es-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpreː.ɫũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈprɛː.lum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prēlum''' ''n'' (genitive prēlī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''praelum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|premō|t=to press]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) De Vaan derives it from ⟨*preslo-⟩ and takes ⟨*pres-⟩ as the original stem of the verb, from [[itc-pro|*pres-]] and [[ine-pro|*pr-es-|t=to press]];^(de Vaan 2008) Leumann's ⟨*premslo-⟩ he finds unlikely.^(de Vaan 2008) The TLL, on the contrary, prefers a form with ⟨-m-⟩ to ⟨*pres-lo-⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the OLD find it first in Cato,^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) who in ''De agri cultura'' lists five fitted presses and gives the length of a press-beam.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is first the beam of a wine or oil press, and so the press itself: Cato uses it in his instructions on the press-room,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Servius explains Virgil's word as the beams with which trodden grapes are pressed.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder use it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Martial has a press for clothes, in which cloaks are laid,^(OLD 2012) and Pliny the Elder the press for papyrus sheets.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "press, winepress", and in modern Church Latin also the printing press and the news media.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of presses and press-beams.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the wine-press.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of a clothes press.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|winepress]] or [[m|en|oil press]], or its beam.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|press]] for clothes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A press for making sheets of [[m|en|papyrus]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(New Latin)'' A printing press; the press, news media.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[premō]]

+ * [[torcular]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}