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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫoːˈriː.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [loˈriː.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lōrīcō''' (present infinitive lōrīcāre, perfect active lōrīcāvī, supine lōrīcātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lōrīca|-ō|t1=cuirass, corselet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913) De Vaan lists it with [[m|la|lōrīca]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|lōrum|t=thong, strap]], and notes that a separate loan etymology is often proposed for the noun, from [[grc|θώραξ|tr=thṓrax|t=cuirass]] or from an unknown Mediterranean language.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan records it first in Varro,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it of coating walls and floors with marble plaster.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The sense “to arm with a cuirass” is most common in the perfect participle ''lōrīcātus'', “wearing a cuirass”,^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) which Livy uses of a statue and of horsemen, and the ''Bellum Africum'' of an elephant armoured and equipped.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder has it of an animal that armours itself with several layers of hide.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In post-classical Latin it was extended to clothing someone in any armour that protects at least the body.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of coating walls with plaster.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses the participle ''lōrīcātus'' of armoured horsemen.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of an animal armouring itself with hides.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To arm with a [[lōrīca]], cover with a [[m|en|cuirass]] or [[m|en|armour]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|coat]] or cover (walls, a floor) with [[m|en|plaster]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dīlōrīcō]]

+ * [[lōrīcātiō]]

+ * [[lōrīcātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lōrum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}