perlustro Latin · revision 36952

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la lūstrō}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perlūstrō''' (present infinitive perlūstrāre, perfect active perlūstrāvī, supine perlūstrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|lūstrō|t1=through, thoroughly|t2=to purify; to go round, survey]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The TLL explains its senses from the different uses of the simple verb, with the ritual of purification by going round showing through in some of them.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Cicero on.^(TLL) In the ''Partitiones oratoriae'' he speaks of all the parts of a subject that are to be gone over in the mind (''perlūstrandae animō'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Livy has it eight times,^(TLL) of a victorious army ranging over the enemy's fields and of men running about the streets to scan everything with their eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Velleius writes that all Germany was traversed by Roman arms under Tiberius,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) and in Phaedrus a fly boasts that it visits all the temples.^(TLL) Silius uses it nine times and Cassian twelve, but it is missing in Augustine, and manuscripts confuse it with [[illūstrō]].^(TLL) Columella keeps the ritual sense of purifying thoroughly with sulphur, bitumen and a burning torch.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to traverse or pass over.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of going over a subject in the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of armies and of scanning with the eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 20 BC–30 AD – Velleius uses it of Germany overrun by Roman arms.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of purifying with sulphur.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 360–c. 435 AD – Cassian uses it often.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|purify]] thoroughly (with a cleansing material).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # To travel through, range over, [[m|en|traverse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # With ''oculīs'': to run one's eyes over, [[m|en|scan]], scrutinize.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # With ''animō'': to go over in the mind, [[m|en|ponder]], study.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lūstrō]]

+ * [[lūstrum#2]]

+ * [[illūstrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}