flammula Latin · revision 4472

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la flamma}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfɫam.mʊ.ɫa]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈflam.mu.la]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''flammula''' ''f'' (genitive flammulae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|flamma|-ula|t1=flame]], a diminutive.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero, in the Academica, reports Timagoras' denial that he ever saw two little flames from a lamp when he squeezed his eye.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a small flame, also in Columella.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In late Latin Vegetius uses it of small pennants carried by cavalry.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval Latin it was a little flame, often figuratively, as of the love of letters in a letter of about 794, and possibly the name of a plant, the lesser spearwort.^(DMLBS)^(MLW) Through Old French ''flamble'', ''flambe'' and the verb ''flamboiier'' “to flame” it is the source of [[en|flamboyant]], recorded in 1832 of an architectural style.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the flames of a lamp.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 400 AD – Vegetius uses it of cavalry pennants.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A little [[m|en|flame]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' A small cavalry [[m|en|pennant]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Perhaps the plant lesser [[m|en|spearwort]].^(MLW)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[flamma]]

+ * [[en|flamboyant]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}