lenocinium Latin · revision 33902

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la lēnō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lēnōcinium''' ''n'' (genitive lēnōciniī or lēnōcinī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lēnō|-cinium|t1=pimp]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) De Vaan explains the varying suffixes of [[m|la|lēnō]] and [[m|la|lēna]] as remodellings of an old n-stem, perhaps meaning "one who lets", and possibly the same stem as in [[m|la|lēnis|t=gentle]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the OLD find it first in Plautus;^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) in the ''Epidicus'' a man asks whether he is running a brothel, keeping other men's women at home.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the trade of a pimp or brothel-keeper: in the ''Mercator'' a man fears he and his wife will be accused of pimping, Suetonius speaks of professing it, and the jurists define it and make a husband who keeps a wife caught in adultery liable to a charge of it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is an allurement: Cicero speaks of the enticements of vices and desires.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also cosmetics and finery, as when Seneca praises a woman who never stained her face with colours and paints, and Suetonius says Augustus cared nothing for finery.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of style it is meretricious ornament: Quintilian complains that people seek not ornaments but allurements, and says a statement of facts lacks such embellishments.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Tacitus uses it of a speech with no flattery added.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Stelten gives "pandering, traffic in vice, allurement" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of brothel-keeping.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the enticements of vice.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of meretricious ornament of style.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of flattery in a speech.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The trade of a [[m|en|pimp]], pimping, [[m|en|pandering]], brothel-keeping.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An [[m|en|allurement]], enticement, charm.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Cosmetics, [[m|en|finery]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''(rhetoric)'' meretricious embellishment.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|flattery|alt=Flattery]], blandishment.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lēnō]]

+ * [[lēna]]

+ * [[lēnōcinor]]

+ * [[lēnōnius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}