sagulum Latin · revision 34463

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la sagum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsa.ɡʊ.ɫũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsaː.ɡu.lum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sagulum''' ''n'' (genitive sagulī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sagum|-ulum|t1=military cloak]], a diminutive.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan finds no etymology for the base noun;^(de Vaan 2008) Walde and Hofmann, he notes, considered it a loan from Gaulish.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan records it first in Varro.^(de Vaan 2008) Cicero uses it in the speech against Piso, of a small military cloak.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short describe it as a small military cloak, usually the general's purple one.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Caesar uses it of the dress of the Gauls and Livy speaks of a common soldier's cloak, ''sagulum gregale''.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Virgil's Gauls shine in their striped cloaks, and Tacitus calls the many-coloured cloak of the Germans ''sagulum versicolor''.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Medieval writers in Britain use it of a cloak or mantle, and in glossaries of a kind of cloth, say; the Corpus Glossary renders it with [[ang|loða]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in the speech against Piso.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of the cloak of the Gauls.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus describes the ''sagulum'' of the Germans.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A small [[m|en|cloak]], especially a soldier's or traveller's cloak.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A cloak or [[m|en|mantle]];^(DMLBS) in glossaries, a kind of cloth, [[m|en|say]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sagulātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sagum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}