oleo Latin · revision 6057

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɔ.ɫe.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɔː.le.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''oleō''' (present infinitive olēre, perfect active oluī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*ode/o-|t=to smell]], [[inh|ine-pro|*h₃ed-|t=to smell]], the root of [[odor]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) Cognate with [[grc|ὄζω|tr=ózō|t=to smell]], [[xcl|հոտ|tr=hot|t=smell]] and [[lt|úosti|t=to smell, sniff]].^(de Vaan 2008) The /d/ became /l/ before /ē/ but stayed before /ō/, and de Vaan thinks the third-conjugation [[m|la|olō|alt=olere]] is older than the second-conjugation form.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, who says that a woman smells best when she smells of nothing.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to give off a smell, with adverbs to smell good or bad and with an ablative or accusative to smell of something, as Cicero's wax that smells of saffron.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it meant to be redolent of, to betray, and of a person to give away one's presence by smell.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Third-conjugation forms appear in Plautus, Afranius, Pomponius and Petronius.^(OLD 2012) Döderlein distinguishes ''olēre'', the smell a thing has, from [[olfaciō]], the sensation of smelling it.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ It survives in Spanish ''oler'' and Italian ''olire''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|redolent]] and [[en|olfactory]] come from its compounds.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of a smell in a recipe.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of wax smelling of saffron.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To give off a [[m|en|smell]]; to smell (good, bad).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To smell of, be [[m|en|redolent]] of.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To betray one's presence by smell.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[aboleō]]

+ * [[adoleō]]

+ * [[inolens]]

+ * [[oboleō]]

+ * [[olax]]

+ * [[olentia]]

+ * [[olēscō]]

+ * [[olētum]]

+ * [[olfaciō]]

+ * [[olidus]]

+ * [[peroleō]]

+ * [[praeoleō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[olētō]]

+ * [[odōrō]]

+ * [[odor]]

+ * [[en|redolent]]

+ * [[en|olfactory]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Lewis and Short list a second verb ''oleō'' “to grow”, found only in compounds such as [[adoleō]] and [[aboleō]], which the TLL thinks was abstracted from ''abolēre''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}