lambo Latin · revision 5730

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɫam.boː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈlam.bo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lambō''' (present infinitive lambere, perfect active lambī, supine lambitum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*lamb-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*lh₂-m-P-|t=to lick]], a nasal present of a root that was probably onomatopoeic, since the labial consonant does not correspond regularly between the languages.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[grc|λάπτω|tr=láptō|t=to lap]], [[hy|լափել|tr=lapʻel|t=to lick]] and [[ang|lapian|t=to lap up]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucilius, who has a boy who licked up cakes with his mouth.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Lucilius c. 180–102 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to pass the tongue over, to lick, as Virgil's serpents licking their hissing mouths with quivering tongues, and to lick up or lap, as Cicero's dogs and the fish without teeth.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) By transfer fire licked or played upon a thing, a river washed its banks and ivy wreathed a tree, as Horace's Hydaspes that laps fabled lands.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Döderlein distinguishes ''lambere'', licking as a way of touching, from ''lingere'', licking for taste.^(Döderlein 1874) It survives in [[it|lambire]] “to lap, touch lightly”, [[es|lamer]] and [[pt|lamber]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius has a boy lick up cakes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil's serpents lick their mouths.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|lick]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To lick up, [[m|en|lap]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # (of fire) To play upon, (of water) to wash, (of plants) to wreathe.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[allambo]]

+ * [[circumlambō]]

+ * [[dēlambō]]

+ * [[ēlambō]]

+ * [[lambiscō]]

+ * [[lambito]]

+ * [[lambitus]]

+ * [[praelambō]]

+ * [[praeterlambō]]

+ * [[relambō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[labium]]

+ * [[lingō]]

+ * [[en|lap]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes ''lambere'' (to lick, using the tongue to touch) from ''lingere'' (to lick, to taste).^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}