lutos

Forms

lutos m or n (feminine singular lutoasă, masculine plural lutoși, feminine/neuter plural lutoase)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian lut + -os, as DEX, the DLR, MDA2 and Tiktin explain it.^[2][3][4][5] Older dictionaries such as Scriban's and the Lexicon de la Buda took it from Latin lutōsus (“muddy”), and the REW lists it under that word.^[6][7][8] Wiktionary gives both explanations.^[1] The noun lut is from Latin lutum (“mud”).^[9]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is the Latin–Romanian glossary of Caransebeș, about 1670.^[5][3]

Semantic evolution

The sense has stayed “clayey, full of clay”, said of soil, river banks and hills, as in Șincai's chronicle and in the farming texts of Ion Ionescu.^[3] The colour and consistency of clay is a later extension.^[3][2] In Muntenia it can mean “dirty, unwashed”.^[10]

Timeline

• c. 1670 – in the Anonymus Caransebesiensis.^[5]
• 1806 – pământul lutos “clayey soil” in a text on growing barley.^[3]
• 1825 – lutosu in the Lexicon de la Buda.^[7]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Containing clay; clayey.^[2][4][1]
2. Having the colour or consistency of clay.^[2][4]
3. (regional) dirty, unwashed.^[10]

Related words

• lut
• Latin lutōsus

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 607
3. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. lutos
4. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1409
5. ^ a b c Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. lutos
6. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 762
7. ^ a b Lesicon românescu-latinescu-ungurescu-nemțescu quare de mai mulți autori, în cursul a trideci și mai multor ani s-au lucrat (1825), Buda: Typographia Universității (the Lexicon of Buda, ed. Petru Maior et al.), p. 365
8. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter
9. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
10. ^ a b Marin, Maria; Mărgărit, Iulia, Glosar dialectal. Muntenia, București: Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti”, p. 242