spatula Latin · revision 4262

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Apicius|origins=grc σπάθη}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈspa.tʊ.ɫa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈspaː.tu.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''spatula''' ''f'' (genitive spatulae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|spatha|-ula|t1=broad flat blade]], with the variant spelling [[m|la|spathula]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''Spatha'' comes from [[grc|σπάθη|tr=spáthē|t=broad blade]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD records it as a flat batten of wood used in setting dislocated limbs.^(OLD 2012) Apicius, whom Köbler dates to the 4th century AD, uses ''spatula porcina'' for a shoulder of pork.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a broad flat piece, and Georges and Gaffiot give the senses of a small stirring spoon or spatula in Pliny Valerianus and of the shoulder blade in Apicius.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) The Vulgate uses it of a palm branch in Leviticus, and the land surveyors of a boundary stone shaped like a ''spatha''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval British Latin it was a flat tool, as used in surgery.^(DMLBS) English ''spatula'' is recorded in the early 15th century for a medical instrument, and as a broad flat blade since the 1520s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4th century AD – Apicius uses it of a shoulder of pork.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of a palm branch.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''spatula'' is recorded as a medical instrument.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A flat piece of wood, a batten.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|spatula]], stirring spoon.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # A shoulder, [[m|en|shoulder blade]].^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A little palm branch.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A boundary stone shaped like a blade.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[spatulātus]]

+ * [[spathulātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[spatha]]

+ * [[en|spatula]]

+ * [[en|spade]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A homograph ''spatula'' “sensual indulgence”, borrowed from Greek [[grc|σπατάλη|tr=spatálē]], occurs in Varro's Menippean Satires.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}