lixa Latin · revision 6039

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lixa''' ''m'' (genitive lixae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Its origin is uncertain.^(Wiktionary) The OLD suggests it is perhaps Etruscan, and Köbler follows Walde and Hofmann in deriving it from Etruscan.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Lewis and Short compared [[linquō]] “to leave”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are the ''Bellum Africum'', which tells of sutlers and traders whose carts were captured, and Sallust.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Sallust 86–34 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a sutler, a camp follower who sold provisions to soldiers, as Livy's general who set out like a sutler, without insignia or lictors, and Tacitus' ''lixae ac negōtiātōrēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy also speaks of trading ''lixārum in modum'', like sutlers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Apuleius it apparently meant an attendant on a magistrate.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of camp followers.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy describes a general setting out like a sutler.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus pairs sutlers and traders.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of a magistrate's attendant.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|sutler]], camp follower.^(OLD 2012)

+ # An attendant on a magistrate.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sēmilixa]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[liqueō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ It is distinct from the rare feminine ''lixa'' “water, lye for washing”, known from Nonius, which de Vaan derives from an adjective *lixus “fluid”, from the root of [[liqueō]] “to be liquid”, and which is the base of [[ēlixus]] “boiled” and [[prōlixus]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}