turunda Latin · revision 36724

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=234–149 BC, Cato the Elder}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''turunda''' ''f'' (genitive turundae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Gaffiot marks the first vowel long, Conte short.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010) A glossary has the by-form ''torunda''.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is doubtful.^(OLD 2012) Georges suggests that it stands for ⟨terenda⟩ “something to be rubbed”, from [[m|la|terō|t=to rub, grind]],^(Georges 1913) and Köbler also refers it to that verb.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato the Elder uses it in the ''De agri cultura'', both of pellets for fattening birds and of a pellet used in treating sores: of a fistula he says ''turundam intro trudito'' (“push a pellet into it”).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Varro uses it of the pellets of meal used to fatten fowls,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) and Nonius quotes him for a kind of sacrificial cake.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In medicine it named a roll of lint or a tent for wounds, as in Cato and Scribonius Largus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato the Elder uses it of fattening pellets and of a medical pellet.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of pellets for fattening fowls and of a sacrificial cake.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 47 AD – Scribonius Largus uses it of a roll of lint.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|pellet]] of meal or paste for fattening birds, especially geese.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A kind of sacrificial [[m|en|cake]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(medicine)'' A pellet, roll of [[m|en|lint]] or tent for treating sores and wounds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}