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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɡɫeː.ba]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɡlɛː.ba]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''glēba''' ''f'' (genitive glēbae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The OLD compares [[goh|klāftra|t=fathom]], [[ang|clyppan|t=to embrace]], [[lt|glóbti|t=to embrace]] and [[globus]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Köbler traces it to [[ine-pro|*gelebʰ-|t=to clump together]].^(Köbler 2010) It is also spelled ⟨glaeba⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Isidore says a ⟨glēba⟩ is a ⟨globus⟩, earth packed into one ball, and loose earth is dust.^(Isidore)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Gaffiot's earliest citations are from Accius and Cato, of a clod.^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Accius 170–c. 90 BC and Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a lump of earth, a clod, as in Cato and Cicero's ''glēbīs aut saxīs agere'' “to drive off with clods or stones”, and in Virgil cultivated soil, land.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Vitruvius it meant a lump of other substances.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a clod.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for soil, a farm, church land, a glebe, and a corpse.^(Niermeyer 1976) British Medieval Latin also used it for a chip of stone and a clot.^(DMLBS) Etymonline relates it, as the source of English glebe, to ''globus'' and [[en|globe]].^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of a clod.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of tilled land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A [[m|en|clod]]; tilled soil, land.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A lump.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A farm; church land, [[m|en|glebe]]; a corpse.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[glēbārius]]
+ * [[glēbōsus]]
+ * [[glēbula]]
+ * [[glēbulentus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[globus]]
+ * [[glomus]]
+ * [[en|glebe]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}