glaber Latin · revision 4884

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *gʰleh₂dʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɡɫa.bɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɡlaː.ber]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''glaber''' (feminine glabra, neuter glabrum, superlative glaberrimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*χlaþro-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*gʰlh₂dʰ-ro-|t=smooth]], from [[ine-pro|*gʰleh₂dʰ-|t=smooth, shiny]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) Schrijver takes the /a/ as the regular outcome of the PIE form.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[lt|glodùs|t=smooth]], [[cu|гладъкъ|tr=gladŭkŭ|t=smooth]], [[goh|glat|t=smooth, shiny]] and [[en|glad]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it of sheep “as hairless as this hand”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it was hairless or smooth, of animals, as Varro's goats, and of people shaved bare.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It was used of other things lacking their usual covering, as napless cloth in Caecilius and Pliny's beardless barley.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Döderlein contrasts it, bare of hair, with [[lēvis]], smooth and not rough.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In medieval Latin it was glossed as bald or bare.^(DMLBS) English ''glabrous'' is from it, and [[it|gabbro]] survives.^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of sheep.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of goats.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1630s – English ''glabrous'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|Hairless]], [[m|en|smooth]], [[m|en|bald]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Lacking a usual covering, as napless cloth or beardless barley.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[glabellus]]

+ * [[glabrātus]]

+ * [[glabrēscō]]

+ * [[glabripennis]]

+ * [[glabrirōstris]]

+ * [[glabrō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lēvis]]

+ * [[en|glabrous]]

+ * [[en|glad]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}