pampinus Latin · revision 34512

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpam.pɪ.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpam.pi.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pampinus''' ''m'' or f (genitive pampinī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is usually masculine, but feminine in Lucilius and Cornelius Severus;^(OLD 2012) Servius says Varro often used it as a feminine.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012) The TLL calls it a foreign word,^(TLL) and the OLD tentatively compares [[grc|ἄμπελος|tr=ámpelos|t=vine]].^(OLD 2012) Pokorny places it among words meaning “to swell”, with [[lt|pampti|t=to swell up]], [[lt|pùmpa|t=knob]] and [[lv|pumpe|t=bump]], taking the first sense as “bud”;^(Pokorny 1959)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis and Short likewise connected it with a root meaning “to swell”, as in [[papula]] “pustule”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Isidore of Seville explained it from its hanging from the [[palmes]], the vine branch.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Ennius,^(Köbler 2010) who writes of joyful vines growing downy with shoots (''vites laetificae pampinis pubescere'').^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a young vine shoot, a tendril, or the foliage of a vine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus mentions a creature (''involvulus'') that wraps itself in a vine leaf, Cato gives instructions for tying up the tender shoots, Cicero describes grapes clothed in leaves, Virgil speaks of the vine leaves that protect the grapes, and Horace of Liber's temples crowned with green vine leaves.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella and Pliny the Elder write of shoots sprouting from the buds and of stripping them off.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Pliny also uses it of a shoot or tendril of other climbing plants, and of the twisted strand of eggs that octopuses lay.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means a vine leaf.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius writes of vines growing downy with shoots.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero describes grapes clothed in vine leaves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of the tendrils of other plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore of Seville gives an etymology of it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A young [[m|en|vine]] shoot, a [[m|en|tendril]]; vine [[m|en|foliage]], a vine leaf.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A shoot or tendril of other climbing plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Anything resembling a vine shoot.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pampināceus]]

+ * [[pampinārius]]

+ * [[pampineus]]

+ * [[pampinō]]

+ * [[pampinōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pampinārium]]

+ * [[pampinātiō]]

+ * [[pampinātor]]

+ * [[pampinātus]]

+ * [[palmes]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}