podagricus Latin · revision 34344

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=106–43 BC, Laberius|origins=grc ποδαγρικός}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''podagricus''' (feminine podagrica, neuter podagricum); first and second declension^(OLD 2012)

+ Some medieval manuscripts spell it ''podacricus''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ποδαγρικός|tr=podagrikós|t=gouty]].^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(DMLBS) The grammarian Charisius says it is named from a disease of the feet.^(TLL) The related noun is [[podagra]], “gout”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Laberius,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it as a noun, “a gouty man”.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means suffering from gout,^(OLD 2012) as of people in Vitruvius^(Georges 1913) and in Seneca's remark that so many women are gouty and bald.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) As a noun it is a gouty person, in Celsus and Petronius, who writes that the gouty curse their feet, as people with gout in the hands curse their hands.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder uses it of ailments of the feet.^(OLD 2012) In medieval British Latin ''morbus podagricus'' is gout itself; a letter in the correspondence of Boniface in 743 speaks of a gouty humour.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 106–43 BC – Laberius uses it as a noun.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of gouty people.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca writes of gouty women.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 743 – A letter in the Boniface correspondence uses it of a gouty humour.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Suffering from or subject to [[m|en|gout]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Relating to gout, gouty.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A person suffering from gout.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}