pulpitum Latin · revision 34062

+ {{infobox|confidence=unknown|attested=65–8 BC, Horace}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpʊɫ.pɪ.tũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpul.pi.tum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pulpitum''' ''n'' (genitive pulpitī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is unknown.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The TLL compares [[culcita]] for its formation, but notes that neither word has been explained.^(TLL) Wiktionary reports a suggestion, after the American Heritage Dictionary, that it is a back-formation from the plural [[m|la|pulpita]], perhaps through Etruscan from [[grc|πολύποδα|tr=polúpoda]], neuter plural of [[m|grc|πολύπους|tr=polúpous|t=trodden by many feet]].^(Wiktionary) Köbler compares [[ine-pro|*pelpo-|t=frame, structure]], with a query.^(Köbler 2010) Isidore of Seville connected it with [[populus]] and [[publicus|alt=pūblicus]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Horace,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it, mostly in the plural, of the stage on which actors perform.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a wooden platform for dramatic performances, recitations, lectures or disputations, and especially the stage for actors; the plural is common in poetry for a single stage.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace has an actor run across the stage in light shoes, and Juvenal speaks of a poet whom the stage feeds.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Younger calls something mockery fit for the stage.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin uses it of a lectern, pulpit or bookstand,^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin of the ambo or reader's pulpit and of a wooden frame or roofing.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''pulpit'' (early 14th century) comes from the Late Latin sense of a raised structure on which preachers stand.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the stage.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal of the stage that feeds a poet.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * early 14th century – English ''pulpit''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A wooden [[m|en|platform]] or [[m|en|scaffold]] for performances, recitations or lectures; a [[m|en|stage]] for actors.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|lectern]], [[m|en|pulpit]], ambo.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A wooden frame, roofing.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pulpitō]]

+ * [[en|pulpit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}