nautea Latin · revision 36867

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈnau̯.te.a]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈnaːu̯.te.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nautea''' ''f'' (genitive nauteae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The TLL also records the spellings ''nōtia'' and ''nodia'', mostly in glossaries.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is disputed.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The OLD and Saalfeld take it as [[bor|grc|ναυτία|tr=nautía|t=seasickness, nausea]],^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874) which Lewis and Short and Georges explain as a form of [[m|grc|ναυσία|tr=nausía]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The TLL calls the origin uncertain; since tanners used it, it tentatively proposes the root [[ine-pro|*kneh₂-|t=to scrape]] (compare [[grc|κνῶ|tr=knô|t=I scrape]]), with a noun meaning “scrapings” as the original form behind the spelling [[m|la|nōtia]], and the spelling with ⟨naut-⟩ as secondary.^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Ancient writers explained it in several ways.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Festus reports Opilius Aurelius as saying it was a plant with black seeds used by tanners, named after the ship because it causes nausea;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Nonius explains it as water from hides or, more likely in his view, bilge water, named after sailors.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Plautus,^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) where it is a byword for a foul smell: asked whether his wife's breath stinks, a character answers that he would sooner drink ''nautea'' than kiss her.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Plautus it is a stinking liquid: the epilogue of the ''Casina'' threatens anyone who does not applaud with a he-goat smeared with it, and in the ''Curculio'' an old woman tells a wine jar that every perfume is ''nautea'' beside its smell.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) A fragment of Plautus quoted by Festus has ''nauteam facere'', “to cause nausea”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ The TLL takes it as the name of the plant bryony, whose foul-smelling fruit or juice tanners used to take the hair off hides, and doubts the old explanation as bilge water.^(TLL) The glossaries gloss it as the smell of hides and the stinking water in which hides are soaked,^(TLL)^(CGL) and under the form ''nōtia'' as bryony and the wild gourd.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a foul-smelling liquid.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * end of the 4th or beginning of the 5th century AD – Nonius explains it as water from hides or bilge water.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A foul-smelling [[m|en|liquid]], perhaps [[m|en|bilge water]], or the tanners' [[m|en|ooze]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

+ # The plant [[m|en|bryony]], used in [[m|en|tanning]].^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|nausea|alt=Nausea]], a qualm.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nausea]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}