strigilis Latin · revision 36661

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈstrɪ.ɡɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈstriː.d͡ʒi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''strigilis''' ''f'' (genitive strigilis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The accusative is also ''strigilim'' (Plautus, Lucilius) and the ablative ''strigilī''; contracted forms such as genitive plural ''striglium'' and dative plural ''striglibus'' occur in Vitruvius, Celsus and Juvenal.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is probably [[der|la|stringō|t=to strip off, graze]], though the suffix is obscure.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan places it with the second meaning of that verb, “to strip off, scratch, shave”, which goes back to [[ine-pro|*stri-n-g-|t=to brush, strip]];^(de Vaan 2008) he notes that this meaning is hard to derive from the verb's other sense, “to tie, tighten”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus is the first author:^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) in the ''Persa'' a parasite is to carry an oil flask, a strigil and a bowl.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the bather's scraper of metal or horn, with a curved, grooved blade for scraping oil, sweat and dirt off the skin, the Greek [[m|grc|στλεγγίς|tr=stlengís]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It appears in Lucilius, Varro, Cicero, Horace, Persius, Seneca and Juvenal.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) By likeness Celsus and Pliny the Elder used it for a grooved instrument for dropping medicine into the ear,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Vitruvius for the fluting of a column,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Pliny for a small nugget of native gold in Spain.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval Britain it also meant a curry-comb for horses, with Anglo-Norman ''estrille'' beside it, and a stirrup.^(DMLBS) English borrowed ''strigil'' in the 1580s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus lists it with a parasite's bath kit.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it for the fluting of columns.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it for an ear syringe.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it for a nugget of gold.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1211 – A Winchester pipe roll has the form ''strilla'' for a horse's curry-comb.^(DMLBS)

+ * 1580s – English borrows it as [[m|en|strigil]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|strigil]], a curved scraper for removing oil, sweat and dirt from the skin at the bath.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(medicine)'' A grooved instrument for putting drops into the ear.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(architecture)'' A [[m|en|fluting]] of a column.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A small [[m|en|nugget]] of native gold.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|currycomb|alt=curry-comb]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[strigilēcula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stringō]]

+ * [[strictim]]

+ * [[en|strigil]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}