eluo Latin · revision 6146

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la lavō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈeː.ɫu.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɛː.lu.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēluō''' (present infinitive ēluere, perfect active ēluī, supine ēlūtum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|luō|t2=to wash]], a variant of [[lavō]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Plautus, whose cook is told to wash the vessels clean inside.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to wash clean or rinse, as dishes and silver plate in Plautus, and to wash out or off, as stains, and by ritual washing to purge away guilt.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of water it meant to wash away land, as in Seneca.^(OLD 2012) In a comic sense it meant to lose all one's property, to be “cleaned out”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ [[en|elute]] and [[en|eluviate]] come from it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of water washing away land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To wash clean, [[m|en|rinse]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To wash out or off; to purge away (guilt).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of water)'' To wash away.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To be “cleaned out”, lose all one's property.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[eluacrus]]

+ * [[elutio]]

+ * [[ēluviēs]]

+ * [[ēluviō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lavō]]

+ * [[en|elute]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}