blaesus Latin · revision 36481

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=43 BC–18 AD, Ovid|origins=grc βλαισός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈblɛː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''blaesus''' (feminine blaesa, neuter blaesum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|βλαισός|tr=blaisós]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) although, as the TLL notes, the Latin word differs in meaning from what the Greek one is recorded to mean.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Ovid is the first to use it: in the ''Amores'' a parrot repeats words with a lisping sound, and in the ''Ars amatoria'' the tongue is forced into a [[m|en|lisp|alt=lisping]] sound on purpose.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It describes speech in which sounds are mispronounced, whether through a defect of the tongue or through drink;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) it is mostly a word of poetry.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Martial uses it of himself lying drunk after seven cups, and Juvenal of drunken men who are easily beaten.^(TLL) Glossaries explain it as mispronouncing one letter in speaking,^(TLL) and the jurist Ulpian uses it as a noun for a person who lisps.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ As a [[m|en|cognomen]] ''Blaesus'' was borne by the Sempronii and Iunii.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It survives in Old French ''blois''^(TLL) and in Italian [[m|it|bleso]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a parrot's speech and of an affected lisp.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial uses it of drunken speech.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal speaks of drunken, stammering men.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it as a noun in the Digest.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|lisping|alt=Lisping]], [[m|en|stammering]]; mispronouncing words through a defect of speech or through drink.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(as a noun)'' A person who lisps.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes it from [[balbus]]: ''balbus'' is stammering as a lasting trait, ''blaesus'' as a passing condition.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}