corbula Latin · revision 34173

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔr.bʊ.ɫa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔr.bu.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corbula''' ''f'' (genitive corbulae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|corbis|-ula|t1=basket]], a diminutive.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces the base to [[itc-pro|*k(o)rfi-|t=basket]] and, with a question mark, [[ine-pro|*k(o)rbʰ-i-|t=basket, wickerwork]].^(de Vaan 2008) Words such as [[lt|kar̃bas|t=basket]] look similar, but many scholars take the Baltic and Slavic words as loans from Germanic (compare [[de|Korb]]), which itself borrowed the Latin word, so de Vaan leaves the question open.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is the first to use it:^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in the Aulularia, ''inde coctam cenam sursum subducemus corbulis'', “from there we will haul the cooked dinner up in baskets”.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Varro says that the smaller baskets were called ''corbulae'' after the ''corbis''.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cato lists twenty baskets from Ameria among farm equipment and has baskets mended for the vintage,^(TLL) Caecilius writes of a basket of bread,^(TLL) and Columella and Suetonius use it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The OLD also gives the sense “basketful”.^(OLD 2012) It survives in [[it|chiorba]], and Italian also borrowed it as [[m|it|corbula]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has dinner hauled up in baskets.^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato lists baskets among farm equipment.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro explains the word from ''corbis''.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small [[m|en|basket]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A [[m|en|basketful]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[corbis]]

+ * [[corbīta]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Corbula'' is also found as a woman's name in an inscription (CIL IV 3081).^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}