pulvinar Latin · revision 33989

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pulvīnar''' ''n'' (genitive pulvīnāris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pulvīnus|-ar|t1=cushion]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan lists the noun for "cushion" among the derivatives of [[m|la|pulvis|t=dust]], whose further origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whose ''Casina'' someone says he will go in to haul his ship back up onto its supports.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is above all the cushioned couch on which the images of the gods were set at a ''lectisternium'':^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Hemina mentions public and private banquets at such couches, and Horace says it is time to deck the couches of the gods with Salian feasts.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''Ad omnia pulvīnāria'', "at all the couches", means at all the temples, as in Cicero and Livy of public thanksgivings.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The honour of a ''pulvīnar'' was also given to people treated as gods: Cicero and Suetonius mention Caesar's.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catullus uses it of the marriage bed of a goddess, and Suetonius of the emperor's seat in the Circus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) More generally it is a sofa or seat of honour, as Ovid of Livia and Juvenal of Messalina.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein distinguishes it from ''pulvīnus'', the cushion of ordinary life, as the cushion of solemn religious occasions.^(Döderlein 1874) Stelten glosses it "pillow".^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a ship's supports.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ * c. 146 BC – Hemina of banquets at the couches of the gods.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of thanksgivings at all the temples.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of a goddess's marriage bed.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius of the emperor's seat in the Circus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A cushioned [[m|en|couch]] for the images of the gods at a [[m|en|lectisternium]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(plural)'' the temples.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The couch of a person given divine honours; a bed of state.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|sofa]], cushioned seat of honour; the emperor's seat in the Circus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A support on which a beached ship is laid.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|pillow]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pulvīnus]]

+ * [[pulvis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}