pulvinarium Latin · revision 34439

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pulvīnārium''' ''n'' (genitive pulvīnāriī); second declension^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pulvīnus|-ārium|t1=cushion]].^(Köbler 2010)^(Georges 1913) The OLD calls the origin of [[m|la|pulvīnus]] doubtful;^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary connects it with [[m|la|pulvis|t=dust, powder]], from the stuffing of a cushion.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) where someone will go in to haul a ship back up ''in pulvinaria'', which Georges takes as the berth of a ship on the slipway.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short and Georges give it two meanings: the cushioned couch of a god in a temple, which they read in Livy, and the place where a ship lies when hauled ashore, in Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Georges notes that Wölfflin's text of Livy has [[pulvīnar]] instead.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of the berth of a ship.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it, in some editions, of a god's couch.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The cushioned [[m|en|couch]] of a god in a temple.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # The place where a ship lies when hauled ashore, a [[m|en|berth]];^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Lewis and Short take it as an anchorage.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pulvīnus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD and the TLL do not treat it as a separate word: the OLD reads ''in pulvinaria'' in Plautus as the plural of [[pulvīnar|alt=pulvīnar]], with the sense of a support on which a beached ship is laid,^(OLD 2012) and the TLL refers the word to its article on pulvīnar.^(TLL) The DMLBS likewise files medieval ''pulvinarium'' under pulvīnar.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}