crumena Latin · revision 34181

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc γρυμέα}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''crumēna''' ''f'' (genitive crumēnae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The OLD, Georges and Conte head it ''crumīna'';^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Gaffiot and Lewis and Short give ''crumēna'' first.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Georges calls ''crumēna'' only a poor manuscript variant,^(Georges 1913) but the TLL notes that it is transmitted in Plautus and Gellius.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) It is perhaps [[bor|grc|γρυμέα|tr=gruméa|t=bag, chest]], somehow altered;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Wiktionary also mentions [[ine-pro|*(s)ker-|t=to cut]], as in [[m|la|scrūta|t=rubbish]] and [[m|la|scrautum|t=quiver]],^(Wiktionary) and Lewis and Short took it for an older ⟨*scrumena⟩ from the root of [[m|la|scrūtor|t=to search]] and [[m|la|scrōtum]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler finds it first in Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) where twenty minae are said to be in a purse, and a purse is hung round a person's neck.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It means a small money bag worn round the neck.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Gellius quotes the jurist Labeo on a slave carrying a purse full of coins.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012) Horace and Juvenal use it of money itself, as in ''nōn dēficiente crumēnā'', “while the purse does not run dry”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Medieval writers use it of a money bag and more widely of a money chest or coffer.^(MLW)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a purse.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of a supply of money.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius quotes Labeo on a purse full of coins.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small money bag, [[m|en|purse]], usually hung round the neck.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A supply of money, [[m|en|funds]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A money chest, [[m|en|coffer]].^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[crumēniseca]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[saccus]]

+ * [[bursa]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}