uligo Latin · revision 36796

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=la ūmeō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ūlīgō''' ''f'' (genitive ūlīginis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|ūmeō|t=to be wet]] according to de Vaan, who lists it among that verb's derivatives.^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD analyses it as a stem ⟨ūl-⟩, which it compares with [[m|la|ūdus|t=wet]] and with that verb, and the suffix [[m|la|-īgō]].^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short and Wiktionary explain it instead as a contraction of ⟨ūvilīgō⟩, from the family of [[m|la|ūvidus|t=damp]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) The verb goes back to [[itc-pro|*ūmo-|t=wet]] and [[ine-pro|*uh₁-mo-|t=wet]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found from Cato on,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) meaning waterlogged ground.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it is the natural dampness of the soil and marshy ground, in Varro, Columella, Virgil, Silius Italicus and Tacitus;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Servius comments on Virgil's use of it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In British Medieval Latin it meant a marsh or bog, and also a jelly-like substance found on wet ground, popularly called a “fallen star”.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it for waterlogged ground.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of damp land.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it in the ''Georgics''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of marshy ground.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 986 – An English charter compares vanishing prosperity to the moisture of the earth.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Waterlogged ground, a [[m|en|marsh]]; the dampness of the soil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|bog]].^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A jelly-like growth on wet ground, [[m|en|nostoc]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ūlīginōsus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Lewis & Short give [[ūmor]] as a near synonym.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}