spumosus Latin · revision 36764

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=la spūma}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''spūmōsus''' (feminine spūmōsa, neuter spūmōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|spūma|-ōsus|t1=foam]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Catullus,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of the foam-covered shore (''spūmōsa lītora'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A poetic word that later passed into prose,^(Lewis & Short 1879) it was used of foaming rivers and waves by Virgil, Ovid and Lucan,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Statius uses it of the roaring of the Anio and calls the sea goddess Doris foamy.^(OLD 2012) Persius calls the words ''arma virum'' frothy (''spūmōsum''), of an inflated style.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) In medical writing it described frothy matter: Pliny the Elder gives some egg-laying animals a frothy lung, and Scribonius Largus uses the neuter plural as a noun for frothy matter brought up by patients;^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Caelius Aurelianus has the comparative ''spūmōsior''.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ Medieval writers kept both uses, for foaming seas and for frothy bodily fluids such as saliva.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it of a foam-covered shore.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of foaming rivers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of waves.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius uses it of bombastic verse.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 5th century AD – Caelius Aurelianus has the comparative.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|foam|alt=Foaming]], [[m|en|frothy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Covered with foam.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Containing a frothy liquid.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(figurative, of style)'' Frothy, [[m|en|bombastic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(neuter plural)'' Frothy matter brought up or passed by the sick.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[spūma]]

+ * [[spūmeus]]

+ * [[spūmō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}