olor Latin · revision 34294

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 180–102 BC, Lucilius|origins=itc-pro *elō̆r}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɔ.ɫɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɔː.lor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''olor''' ''m'' (genitive olōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*elō̆r]], probably from an earlier ⟨*elōr⟩ with the regular change of /e/ to /o/ before a velarised /l/, though ⟨*olōr⟩ cannot be ruled out entirely.^(de Vaan 2008) With [[sga|elu]] and [[cy|alarch|t=swan]] it goes back to an Italo-Celtic word for the swan.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The words closest in form and meaning, [[goh|albiz]] and the Slavic words for the swan, seem to go back to [[ine-pro|*h2elbh-]], the root of [[m|la|albus|t=white]], but the Slavic accent does not match; de Vaan suggests that their ⟨*-bh-⟩ may be a suffix, and that if all these words share one word for the swan, it must have been borrowed into Indo-European from another language.^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary traces it to [[m|ine-pro|*h₁el-]], a name for a waterfowl,^(Wiktionary) as Köbler does after Pokorny.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ Isidore of Seville explained it from Greek [[m|grc|ὅλος|tr=hólos|t=whole]], because the swan is “wholly white”.^(Isidore|12.7.18)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the TLL find it first in Lucilius;^(Köbler 2010)^(TLL) de Vaan dates it from Virgil on,^(de Vaan 2008) who has ''arguti olores'', “clear-voiced swans”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the swan, the Latin word beside the Greek loan [[cygnus]];^(Isidore|12.7.18)^(Georges 1913) it is a word of poetry from Lucilius, Virgil, Horace and Propertius on, and rarer in prose, from Pliny the Elder, Suetonius and Apuleius.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has the white swan singing at the shallows of the Maeander, and Pliny tells of the mournful song swans were said to sing at their death.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Manilius it is the constellation of the Swan, ''Cygnus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ It is still in the Church Latin vocabulary.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil writes of ''arguti olores''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid has the white swan of the Maeander.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Manilius uses it for the constellation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it in prose and tells of the swan's death song.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville derives it from Greek “whole”.^(Isidore|12.7.18)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(chiefly poetic)'' A [[m|en|swan]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(astronomy)'' The constellation [[m|en|Cygnus]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cygnus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate ''olor'', “smell”, is an older and later form of [[odor]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Varro says that ''odor'' was also said ''olor'' with one letter changed, whence ''olet'' and ''odorārī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}