colluvio Latin · revision 36426

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la lavō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔlˈlʊ.wi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kolˈluː.vi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''colluviō''' ''f'' (genitive colluviōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conluviō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ The fifth-declension [[colluvies]] has the same meaning.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|colluō|-iō|t1=to wash out, rinse]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913) and [[m|la|colluō]] is a compound of [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|lavō|t=to wash]].^(Wiktionary) Its first meaning was what is washed together.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it first,^(Köbler 2010) for a [[m|en|jumble]] or vile medley: in the speech for Sestius he calls a man born out of the cesspool of every crime.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its classical uses were figurative: a mixed mass or welter, an impure mixture (Livy's ''colluvio gentium'', a mingling of peoples), and a state of [[m|en|turmoil]], as in Cicero's “turmoil of Drusus”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Livy and Suetonius use it of the mixed rabble of exiles or of foreign and slave blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ The literal sense, collected filth, appears in late writers: Arnobius speaks of the dregs of bilge water and Cassian of impure fluids.^(Georges 1913) Jerome uses it of the filth of public prostitution, and Lactantius of contamination.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a welter of crimes and of political turmoil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy speaks of a mixture of peoples.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of foreign and servile blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 297–310 AD – Arnobius uses the plural of bilge water.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 360–c. 435 AD – Cassian uses it of impure fluids.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A heterogeneous mass, [[m|en|jumble]], welter.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|contamination|alt=Contamination]], an impure mixture.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A disordered state of affairs, [[m|en|turmoil]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Collected [[m|en|filth]], dregs.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[colluviēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}