lamina Latin · revision 4767

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɫaː.mɪ.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈlaː.mi.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lāmina''' ''f'' (genitive lāminae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also written ''lammina'' and, syncopated, ''lamna'', as in Horace.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The only serious proposal connects it with [[lātus]] “wide”, from [[m|la|*stlātos]], through a form [[itc-pro|*stlāmen-]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The Oxford Latin Dictionary calls it doubtful.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it was a thin sheet or plate of metal, as in Cato, of wood, marble or horn, and in colloquial speech money, as in Petronius.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) A red-hot plate was used to torture slaves, and it was also a saw blade, the flap of the ear and the soft shell of an unripe nut.^(Wiktionary)

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+ In medieval Latin it was a metal plate used in ordeals or torture and in ornament.^(DMLBS) It survives as [[fr|lame]] and [[ro|lamă]].^(Wiktionary) English ''lamina'' and ''laminate'' come from it, and its diminutive [[lāmella]] “small plate” gave French ''omelette'', named from its flat shape.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses ''lamna'' of metal strips.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1610s – English ''omelet'' is recorded, from French, ultimately from ''lāmella''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1650s – English ''lamina'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A thin [[m|en|plate]] of metal; a leaf (of wood or marble).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(colloquial)'' Money.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A red-hot plate (for torture).^(Wiktionary)^(DMLBS)

+ # A saw blade; the flap of the ear.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lāmella]]

+ * [[lamnula]]

+ * [[sublamina]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lātus]]

+ * [[en|lamina]]

+ * [[en|laminate]]

+ * [[en|omelet]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}