elixus Latin · revision 35762

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *wl(e)ikʷso-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eːˈlɪk.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈlik.sus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēlixus''' (feminine ēlixa, neuter ēlixum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|*lixus|t2=fluid, flowing]], built like [[m|la|prōlixus]];^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) its first meaning must have been “boiling out”.^(de Vaan 2008) The simple adjective is unattested, but its feminine survives as the noun [[lixa]]; it is probably formed with a suffix ⟨-so-⟩ from the root of [[m|la|liqueō|t=to be liquid]], and de Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*wl(e)ikʷso-|t=fluid, flowing]] and [[ine-pro|*u̯l(e)ikʷ-s-]].^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD also compares [[m|la|ēlix]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Plautus on,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who uses it in plays on words in the ''Poenulus'' and the ''Mostellaria'', meaning [[m|en|boiled]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used mainly of meat or other food that has been boiled, as in Varro, Horace, Pliny the Elder and Juvenal.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) By a transfer it came to mean “soaked, sodden”: Varro uses it of shoes, Martial of a bath attendant, and Persius of flesh gone soft after the bath.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it, punning on “boiled”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of boiled food and of soaked shoes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of boiled meat.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius uses it of flesh softened by bathing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # (of meat and other food) [[m|en|boiled]], thoroughly cooked in water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Soaked, [[m|en|sodden]], wet through.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēlixō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}