strophium Latin · revision 36781

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc στρόφιον}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''strophium''' ''n'' (genitive strophiī or strophī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''strofium''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|στρόφιον|tr=stróphion|t=band]],^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) from [[m|grc|στρέφω|tr=stréphō|t=to turn, twist]].^(Wiktionary) Georges explains it as something wound around.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus,^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) in a fragment of the ''Aulularia'' that lists breast-bands among the costly clothes of wives.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In comedy Turpilius has a letter hidden between a little tunic and a breast-band,^(OLD 2012) and Varro uses the word too.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Cicero mocks a man who went from the women's headdress, slippers and breast-band to being suddenly a man of the people,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Catullus describes breasts no longer bound by the smooth band.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Nonius defines it as a short band that held in a girl's swelling breasts.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In the ''Copa'' it is a headband or chaplet,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Festus says that priests wore such a band on the head in place of a crown.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Apuleius uses it of a ship's anchor cables,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Prudentius speaks figuratively of a dactylic garland, a poem.^(Georges 1913) In ecclesiastical Latin it was a girdle or a headband,^(Stelten 1995) and medieval writers in Britain used it for a belt or girdle, and glossaries for a baldric.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a breast-band.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 2nd century BC – Turpilius has a letter hidden in one.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus describes breasts bound with it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of anchor cables.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 348/49–c. 413 AD – Prudentius uses it figuratively of a poem.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A twisted band worn by women to support the [[m|en|breast|alt=breasts]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # A [[m|en|headband]], a [[m|en|chaplet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A rope, a [[m|en|cable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|girdle]].^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|belt]]; a [[m|en|baldric]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[strophiārius]]

+ * [[strophiolum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}