interluo Latin · revision 36870

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *(le-)louh₃-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''interluō''' (present infinitive interluere, perfect active interluī); third conjugation^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|inter-|lavō|t2=to wash]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) In compounds this verb takes the form ⟨-luō⟩, as in [[m|la|abluō]] and [[m|la|dīluō]].^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces [[m|la|lavō]] to [[itc-pro|*lowa-]] and [[ine-pro|*(le-)louh₃-|t=to wash]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has it in a fragment.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Cato uses it in a ritual: ''manūs interluitō, posteā vīnum sūmitō'', “wash your hands in between, then take the wine”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From washing in the middle of an act, it came to be used of water that flows between two lands and washes both.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Virgil uses it of the sea that splits the Italian coast from the Sicilian and flows between their fields and cities, and of the river Allia.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus uses it of the strait between Capri and Surrentum, and Seneca of every sea that flows between lands.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Later the passive appears: Solinus says that a city is flowed through by the Euphrates.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Manuscripts often confuse it with [[interfluō]].^(Georges 1913)^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in a fragment.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of washing the hands during a sacrifice.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the sea between Italy and Sicily.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of the strait between Capri and Surrentum.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * first half of the 3rd century AD – Solinus uses it in the passive of a city crossed by the Euphrates.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|wash]] (the hands) in the course of a rite.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(of straits and rivers)'' To flow between, wash (lands).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[interluviēs]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lavō]]

+ * [[interfluō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}