odoro Latin · revision 34749

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=la odor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɔˈdoː.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [oˈdɔː.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''odōrō''' (present infinitive odōrāre, perfect active odōrāvī, supine odōrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|odor|t=smell]], a verb made from the noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are the participle in Horace, of grey hair perfumed with roses, and in Propertius.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it means to make fragrant, especially the hair or the body;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has it of perfuming the air with fumes, Columella of honey, and Pliny the Younger of a terrace scented with violets.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its participle [[odōrātus#1]] became an adjective, “fragrant”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Late and Christian Latin it also took the sense of the deponent [[odōror]], to perceive by smell: Tertullian, Lactantius and Augustine use it so, and the Vulgate has “they have noses and will not smell”.^(Georges 1913)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses the participle of perfumed hair.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid speaks of perfuming the air with fumes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of honey.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it in the sense of smelling.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of noses that cannot smell.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make [[m|en|fragrant]], [[m|en|perfume]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' To [[m|en|smell]], perceive by smell.^(Georges 1913)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exodoratus]]

+ * [[inodōrō]]

+ * [[odoramen]]

+ * [[odōrāmentum]]

+ * [[odōrātus#1]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[odor]]

+ * [[odōror]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ It is distinct from the deponent [[odōror]] “to smell out”, though Late Latin used it in that sense too.^(Georges 1913)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}