lacinia Latin · revision 34495

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus (c. 250–184 BC)|origins=ine-pro *lh₂k-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫaˈkɪ.ni.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [laˈt͡ʃiː.ni.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lacinia''' ''f'' (genitive laciniae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|ine-pro|*lh₂k-|t=to tear]], through a nasal stem from which de Vaan also explains [[m|la|lancinō|t=to tear to pieces]].^(de Vaan 2008) It belongs with [[m|la|lacer|t=torn, mangled]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) and Wiktionary gives the root as [[m|ine-pro|*leh₂k-]].^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[grc|λακίς|tr=lakís|t=rent; tatters]] and [[m|grc|λακίζω|tr=lakízō|t=to tear]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) for the hem of a garment: one weeping character holds another by it,^(OLD 2012) and another is told to take the hem and wipe off the sweat.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is the edge, flap or hem of a garment;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Cicero has the idiom ''laciniā obtinēre'', to hold something only by the hem, barely.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It was also a strip of cloth and, in Apuleius, in the plural, clothes.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) By likeness it named a hanging piece of flesh such as the two wattles of she-goats, a strip or edge of land, and in Columella a small group of animals in a flock.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ Ecclesiastical Latin uses it for a small tassel.^(Stelten 1995) The word lives on in dialects of southern Italy and central Sardinia.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for the hem of a garment.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero has ''laciniā obtinēre'' “to hold by the hem”.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it for a small group of a flock.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it for the wattles of she-goats and for a strip of land.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses the plural for clothes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The edge, flap or [[m|en|hem]] of a garment; a [[m|en|fringe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A strip of cloth, a [[m|en|rag]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(plural)'' Clothes, dress.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A hanging fleshy part, such as the [[m|en|wattle|alt=wattles]] or [[m|en|dewlap]] of an animal.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A narrow strip or edge of land.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A small group (of animals).^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A small [[m|en|tassel]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[laciniātim]]

+ * [[laciniātus]]

+ * [[laciniōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lacer]]

+ * [[lacerō]]

+ * [[lancinō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Festus connected it with ''lanius'' “butcher” and ''dēlaniāre'' “to tear apart”.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}