fuligo Latin · revision 6785

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *dʰuh₂-li-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [fuːˈliː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [fuˈliː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fūlīgō''' ''f'' (genitive fūlīginis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a Latin derivative, with the suffix seen in [[-īgō]], of an i-stem [[itc-pro|*fūli-|t=smoke]], [[ine-pro|*dʰuh₂-li-|t=smoke, dust]], perhaps from an adjective *dʰuh₂-lo- “smoking, dusty”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) Cognate with [[sa|धूलि|tr=dhūli-|t=dust]], [[lt|dūlis|t=smoke used in bee-keeping]] and [[lv|dūlis]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) It belongs with [[fūmus]] “smoke”.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, whose character has a face smeared with soot.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant soot, as Cicero's image of a face wiped clean of soot, and also thick smoke, as Quintilian's soot of night work, and a black dye for the eyebrows, as in Juvenal.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It was also used figuratively of obscurity or a stain.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Medieval Latin it was soot used as a cosmetic and in medicine, and filth of any kind.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''fuliggine'', Portuguese ''fuligem'' and Romanian ''funingine''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a sooty face.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of soot wiped away.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of the soot of lamps.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

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

+ # Thick [[m|en|smoke]].^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # A black dye for the eyebrows.^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Obscurity; a stain.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fuliginatus]]

+ * [[fūlīgineus]]

+ * [[fūlīginōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fūmus]]

+ * [[suffiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}