ulva Latin · revision 34119

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=234–149 BC, Cato}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈʊɫ.wa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈul.va]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ulva''' ''f'' (genitive ulvae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) The OLD tentatively compares [[m|la|alga|t=seaweed]];^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary suggests [[ine-pro|*h₂el-|t=to grow]],^(Wiktionary) and Köbler, with a question mark, Pokorny's root [[ine-pro|*el-|t=to rot, be mouldy]].^(Köbler 2010)^(Pokorny 1959) Isidore of Seville thought it was named from the marshy moisture in which it grows.^(Isidore|17.9.100)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato is the first to use it, in his book on farming.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the poets it is the sedge of marshes and riverbanks:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil has ''ulva palustris'', and Horace a boar fattened on sedge and reeds.^(Lewis 1890) Pliny the Elder uses it in his books on trees and plants.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Medieval glossaries in Britain explain it as a marsh plant and give Old English and French equivalents,^(DMLBS) and Italian took it over as ''ulva''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it in his book on farming.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it in the ''Georgics'' and the ''Eclogues''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it in the ''Metamorphoses''.^(Conte 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it in the ''Natural History''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|sedge|alt=Sedge]]; a general name for grass-like or rush-like [[m|en|aquatic]] plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ulvōsus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}