ornus Latin · revision 7701

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɔr.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɔr.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ornus''' ''f'' (genitive ornī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from ⟨*osenos⟩ or ⟨*osinos⟩, from [[ine-pro|*h₃es-|t=ash tree]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Cognate with [[ru|ясень|tr=jasenʹ|t=ash tree]], [[cy|onnen|t=ash tree]], and with another suffix [[non|askr]] and [[ang|æsc|t=ash tree]], whence [[en|ash]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source is Virgil, whom he dates 70–19 BC, and Virgil calls them ''sterilēs ornī''.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a kind of ash with showy blossoms, the flowering or manna ash, ''Fraxinus ornus'', as in Virgil, Horace, Columella and Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Juvenal it meant a trunk of this tree used as a missile, and in Silius and Ausonius an ashwood lance.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ It survives in Italian ''orno'' and Romanian ''urm'', and was borrowed into French as ''orne''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of the flowering ash.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder describes it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The flowering ash, ''Fraxinus ornus''.^(OLD 2012)

+ # An ashwood missile; a [[m|en|lance]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[orneus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fraxinus]]

+ * [[en|ash]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}