corrigia Latin · revision 3561

+ {{infobox|confidence=disputed|formation=inherited|attested=Varro|origins=ine-pro *Hriǵ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [kɔrˈrɪ.ɡi.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [korˈriː.d͡ʒi.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corrigia''' ''f'' (genitive corrigiae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ De Vaan takes it as [[inh|itc-pro|*kom-rig-jo-|t=tying together]], from [[ine-pro|*Hriǵ-(i)o-|t=stretching]], the only Latin remnant of the Italo-Celtic compound verbs of *rig- “to stretch, bind”.^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD likewise says it is apparently unconnected with [[corrigo|alt=corrigō]] “to correct”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Cognate with [[sga|con·rig|t=binds together]] and the Middle Irish word for “chain”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Wiktionary instead derives it from that verb, in the sense “to make straight”, with the suffix [[m|la|-ia]], as do Lewis and Short.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Varro onwards,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) and Cicero uses it in his work on divination.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a thong that tied a shoe to the foot, a shoelace, as in Varro, Cicero and Pliny.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Late Latin it was any strap or thong: a whip, the strap of a yoke, and a horse's rein in Diocletian's price edict.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it also meant a girdle, a barber's strop and a narrow strip of land.^(Köbler 2010) It survives as Italian ''correggia'', French ''courroie'', Spanish ''correa'', Portuguese ''correia'' and Romanian ''curea''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of a shoelace.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero mentions a broken shoelace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|shoelace]], thong for a shoe.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A strap, thong; a [[m|en|whip]]; a rein.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A girdle; a strip of land.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[corrigō]]

+ * [[rigeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}