bulga Latin · revision 4047

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Lucilius|origins=cel-pro *bolgos}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈbʊɫ.ɡa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈbul.ɡa]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''bulga''' ''f'' (genitive bulgae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|cel-pro|*bolgos|t=bag]], through Gaulish.^(Wiktionary) The OLD and the TLL call it Gaulish and compare [[sga|bolg|t=leather bag, bellows]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Festus says that the Gauls give this name to small leather bags.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lucilius uses it of a purse in which a man keeps all his money, and humorously of the womb.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Lucilius about 180–102 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a leather bag, wallet or purse, worn hanging from the arm according to Nonius' quotation of Lucilius, and Varro uses it in his Menippean Satires.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucilius also jokes with it for a mother's womb.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In late and medieval Latin it was a leather bag or bottle, used by Aldhelm of Judith's bag, and in medieval glosses also the belly.^(DMLBS)^(MLW) French ''bouge'' comes from it, and Lewis & Short connect ''bougette''.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of a purse and of the womb.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it in the Menippean Satires.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 2nd half of the 2nd century AD – Festus explains it as a Gaulish word.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A leather bag, [[m|en|wallet]], [[m|en|purse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(colloquial)'' The [[m|en|womb]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A leather bottle; the belly.^(DMLBS)^(MLW)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|budget]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}