loreus Latin · revision 36226

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la lōrum}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lōreus''' (feminine lōrea, neuter lōreum); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lōrum|-eus|t1=thong, strap]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan compares [[m|la|lōrum]] with [[grc|εὔληρα|tr=eúlēra|t=reins]] and Doric [[m|grc|αὔληρα|tr=aúlēra]]; since Beekes suspects a Pre-Greek origin for the Greek words while the vowel alternation looks Indo-European, he suggests a loan, perhaps from an extinct Indo-European language.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) whose ''Miles gloriosus'' has a master threaten his slaves that he will make their flanks into thongs, that is, cut their hide into strips.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its plain sense is made of thongs or leather straps.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cato's farm manual uses it of ropes made of thongs, and Pliny the Elder of bands.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The TLL calls Plautus' use a bold joke, and compares his phrase about slaves who will become ''ulmeī'', “made of elm”.^(TLL)

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+ British medieval glossaries used it of the light leather shield of the Africans and Spaniards, following Isidore.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus jokes about flanks cut into thongs.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of ropes made of thongs.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of bands.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Made of [[m|en|thong|alt=thongs]] or leather [[m|en|strap|alt=straps]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lōrum]]

+ * [[lōrīca]]

+ * [[lōripēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}