eluvies Latin · revision 34241

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=la ēluō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēluviēs''' ''f'' (genitive ēluviēī); fifth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ēluō|-iēs|t1=to wash out]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares [[m|la|ēluviō]], of the same meaning.^(TLL) De Vaan lists the verbs in ⟨-luere⟩ under [[m|la|lavō|t=to wash]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*lowa-]] and [[ine-pro|*(le-)louh₃-|t=to wash]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xum|vutu]], [[grc|λούω|tr=loúō|t=I wash]] and [[non|lauðr|t=lye, foam]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the TLL record it first in Lucilius,^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) who has ''eluviem facere per ventrem'', of a purging of the bowels.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is a washing out of filth: Pliny the Elder writes of towns hollowed out by sewers ''ad eluviem'', and Apuleius of scrubbing off an enormous crust of dirt.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) It then means an overflowing or inundation: Ovid has ''eluvie mons est deductus in aequor'', “by a flood the mountain was carried down into the sea”, and Tacitus uses it of the overflow of the sea.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero calls a ruinous law ''illa labes atque eluvies civitatis'', “that ruin and deluge of the state”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Concretely it is, in Curtius, a ravine cut by torrents, and in Juvenal probably floodwater, though Georges reports that commentators take it there as the sewage of drains or as marsh water.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Palladius uses it of bath water, Grattius of urine and Aurelius Victor's epitome of a flux of the bowels.^(Georges 1913) Medieval British writers and glossaries use it for washing, washing water, scourings and dysentery.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of evacuating the bowels.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it figuratively of a law that ruins the state.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a flood.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius uses it of ravines cut by water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A washing away of [[m|en|filth]]; scourings; evacuation of the [[m|en|bowel|alt=bowels]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|overflow|alt=Overflowing]], [[m|en|inundation]]; figuratively, ruin.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|floodwater|alt=Floodwater]]; a [[m|en|ravine]] formed by rushing water.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēluviō]]

+ * [[dīluviēs]]

+ * [[lavō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}