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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Pacuvius|origins=la luō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈab.ɫu.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈab.lu.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''abluō''' (present infinitive abluere, perfect active abluī, supine ablūtum); third conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ab-|t=away]] and [[luō]] “to wash”, related to [[lavō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citation is Pacuvius, who has dust washed off with water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Pacuvius 220–130 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to wash off or away, as Virgil's blood and sweat washed off, and figuratively to wash away, dispel feelings, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant to wash clean, cleanse, bathe, as Cicero's washing of Ulysses' feet, and poetically of water to bathe, flow past, as in Tibullus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to wash, cleanse.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in French ''abluer'' and Portuguese ''abluir''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|ablution]] comes from its noun ''ablūtiō'' in the late 14th century.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius uses it of washing off dust.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of washing feet and dispelling feelings.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of washing off blood.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''ablution'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|wash]] off, wash away.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To dispel (feelings).^(OLD 2012)
+ # To wash clean, cleanse, bathe.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[ablūtiō]]
+ * [[ablūtor]]
+ * [[abluviō]]
+ * [[abluvium]]
+ * [[superabluo]]
+ * [[ablūtus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[alluō]]
+ * [[circumluō]]
+ * [[colluō]]
+ * [[dēluō]]
+ * [[dīluō]]
+ * [[ēluō]]
+ * [[interluō]]
+ * [[lavō]]
+ * [[luō]]
+ * [[perluō]]
+ * [[en|ablution]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}