lupanar Latin · revision 36438

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫʊˈpaː.naːr], [ɫʊˈpaː.nar]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [luˈpaː.nar]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lupānar''' ''n'' (genitive lupānāris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|lupa|t=she-wolf; prostitute]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) with an ending the OLD and the TLL compare with [[m|la|Bacchānal]] from [[m|la|Baccha]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Wiktionary explains it as a shortening of an earlier neuter adjective ⟨*lupānāre⟩, built with the suffixes [[m|la|-ānus]] and [[m|la|-āris]].^(Wiktionary) That noun is the feminine of [[m|la|lupus|t=wolf]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who in the ''Bacchides'' speaks of a man who lies at table in a brothel.^(Conte 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Catullus uses it as a term of abuse.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Petronius, Quintilian and Juvenal use it of a brothel,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) and Ammianus Marcellinus applies it to an emperor's harem.^(Georges 1913) The TLL also records a form ''lupānārium''.^(TLL) In British medieval Latin it was still a brothel or “stew”, spelled also ⟨lupinar⟩ and ⟨lupaner⟩, and by association with “stew” it once named a fishpond.^(DMLBS) English [[m|en|lupanar]] was borrowed from it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in the ''Bacchides''.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it as a term of abuse.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses it of an emperor's harem.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1598 – A survey of Cobham uses it of a fishpond.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|brothel]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(term of abuse)'' A [[m|en|whore]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A [[m|en|harem]].^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|fishpond]], stew.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lupa]]

+ * [[lupus]]

+ * [[en|lupanar]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}