iugulatio Latin · revision 36868

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=after 44 BC, Bellum Hispaniense|origins=la iugulum}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''iugulātiō''' ''f'' (genitive iugulātiōnis); third declension^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|iugulō|-tiō|t1=to cut the throat, kill]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) That verb is formed from [[m|la|iugulum|t=throat]], which de Vaan places with [[m|la|iugum|t=yoke]] and [[m|la|iungō|t=to join]]: it probably meant a small yoke or connecting part before it came to mean the throat.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first author is the writer of the ''Bellum Hispaniense'',^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) dated by Köbler to after 44 BC;^(Köbler 2010) he uses it of a massacre of the townspeople, ''iugulātiōne oppidānōrum factā''.^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means a slaughter or massacre, the killing of people by cutting their throats.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) After the ''Bellum Hispaniense'' it appears in the Old Latin Bible (the Itala), where the Vulgate has [[interfectiō]] in the same verse, and in Tertullian.^(TLL)

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+ Medieval British chroniclers used it of the slaying of nobles and of a murder that an heir wished to avenge.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * after 44 BC – The ''Bellum Hispaniense'' uses it of massacres.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian uses it.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * after 220 AD – The Old Latin Bible uses it in Isaiah.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|slaughter|alt=Slaughter]], [[m|en|massacre]]; a killing by cutting the throat.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[iugulō]]

+ * [[iugulum]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}