puriter Latin · revision 34646

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *ph₂ú-ro-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pūriter''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ The OLD gives its comparative and superlative under ''pūrē''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pūrus|-ter|t1=clean, pure]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan traces [[m|la|pūrus]] to [[itc-pro|*pūro-|t=pure]] and [[ine-pro|*ph₂ú-ro-|t=clear, cleansed]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler first records it in Cato,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it in his work on agriculture of handling things cleanly, as in pouring a liquid into another jar cleanly and gently.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in a [[m|en|clean]] manner, free of dirt: in a comedy of Pomponius someone is told to handle a thing cleanly and answers that he has washed his hands, and Catullus mocks a man who has washed his teeth clean.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Catullus also has the moral sense, with purity of life: “if I have lived my life purely, take this plague from me”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Georges calls it the pre-classical and poetic form beside [[pure|alt=pūrē]].^(Georges 1913) In medieval British Latin it means purely, free of moral contamination or corruption.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of handling things cleanly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it of washing the teeth and of a pure life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In a [[m|en|clean]] manner, free of dirt or impurities.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # With [[m|en|purity]] of life, righteously.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}