emblema Latin · revision 34532

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Lucilius (c. 180–102 BC)|origins=grc βάλλω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛmˈbɫeː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [emˈblɛː.ma]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''emblēma''' ''n'' (genitive emblēmatis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The dative and ablative plural is ''emblēmatīs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Cicero has the genitive plural ''emblēmatum''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἔμβλημα|tr=émblēma|t=insertion, inlay]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) a noun from [[m|grc|ἐμβάλλω|tr=embállō|t=to throw in, insert]], which is formed from [[m|grc|ἐν|tr=en|t=in]] and [[m|grc|βάλλω|tr=bállō|t=to throw]].^(Köbler 2010)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in a line of Lucilius, quoted by Cicero, about little tesserae set in an inlaid mosaic (''emblēmate vermiculātō'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It named inlaid work: a mosaic pavement (Lucilius, Varro) and the relief panels set into silver vessels, which Cicero mentions often in the ''Verrines'' and distinguishes from ''crustae''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder mentions a bowl with an inlay of Ulysses and Diomedes.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian uses it figuratively for a passage taken from elsewhere and inserted into a speech.^(Georges 1913) The grammarian Pompeius has a feminine ''emblēma'', ''-ae''.^(Georges 1913)

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+ Ecclesiastical Latin uses it for an emblem.^(Stelten 1995) English ''emblem'' first meant a relief or raised ornament on a vessel (1580s), from this Latin word.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of an inlaid mosaic.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it for a mosaic pavement.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it for the relief inlays of silver vessels.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it for an inserted passage.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1580s – English borrows it as ''emblem''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Inlaid work, a [[m|en|mosaic]] pavement.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # An inlaid [[m|en|relief]] set into a silver vessel.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A passage inserted from elsewhere.^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' An [[m|en|emblem]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|emblem]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}