rogus Latin · revision 5644

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=Twelve Tables|origins=ine-pro *h₃reǵ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈrɔ.ɡʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈrɔː.ɡus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rogus''' ''m'' (genitive rogī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*rogo-|t=what is erected, pile]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₃roǵ-o-|t=erected]], derived from the root of [[regō]] in its old sense “to set upright”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The OLD compares [[non|rakr|t=upright]] and [[got|𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽|tr=rikan|t=to heap up]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from the laws of the kings and the Twelve Tables, whose rule ''rogum asciā nē polītō'' “do not smooth the pyre with an axe”, against funeral luxury, is quoted by Cicero.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a funeral pyre, the pile of wood on which a body was burned, as in Cicero's phrases ''in rogum impōnere'' “to put on the pyre” and ''in rogum īnscendere'' “to mount the pyre”.^(Gaffiot 2016) It came to mark the end of life, as Cicero speaks of a reputation that follows a man to the pyre, and by metonymy it meant the ashes of the dead, as in Propertius.^(OLD 2012) Manilius and Lucan applied it to a world-wide conflagration.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Afranius has a neuter ''rogum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Medieval glossators explained it as a heap of wood, and it survives in [[it|rogo]] “pyre”.^(DMLBS)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 5th century BC – The Twelve Tables forbid smoothing the pyre with an axe.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero speaks of mounting the pyre.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it of the ashes of the dead.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A funeral [[m|en|pyre]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # (figurative) The end of life, death.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The ashes or remains of a dead person.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A great [[m|en|conflagration]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[regō]]

+ * [[rogō]]

+ * [[bustum]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Lewis and Short give ''bustum'' as a synonym, ''rogus'' was the pyre itself.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}