pollingo

== Latin == === Etymology === According to De Vaan, from Proto-Italic *porwlinkʷō, from *por- + a nasal present formed on Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“fluid, wet”) (the same root as liqueō, ēlixus). In Plautus, there are attestations of an agent noun pollictor built on an alternative supine/PPP stem pollict- (the vowel -i- would be expected to be short here according to De Vaan's etymology). The expected present stem according to this etymology, *pollinqu-, does not occur: De Vaan suggests -nqu- was analogically replaced by -ng- in the present stem by back-formation from other stems such as pollict-. The present stem polling- is rare and attested chiefly in late grammatical discussions; it may have been influenced by the false or folk etymology that derived this word from a compound of polluō and ungō, as in Fulgentius's explanation of pollinctores as having the meaning of pollutorum unctores "anointers of the polluted". === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔlˈlɪŋ.ɡoː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [polˈliŋ.ɡo] === Verb === pollingō (present infinitive pollingere, perfect active pollīnxī, supine pollīnctum or *pollictum); third conjugation (pre-classical and post-classical) to wash a corpse in preparation for a funeral ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== pollīnctor / pollictor === References === === Further reading === “pollingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pollingo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. pollingo, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011