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lorum.

leather strap, thong; shoe strap; rawhide whip; dog leash; reins (usu. pl.);

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. thong (leather strap)

    declension-2
  2. thong (leather strap) a thong of a sling

    declension-2 · poetic
  3. reins of a bridle

    declension-2 · in-plural
  4. whip, lash, scourge

    declension-2
  5. the girdle of Venus

    declension-2
  6. a slender vine-branch

    declension-2
Where this word comes from

Likely cognate with Ancient Greek εὔληρα (eúlēra, “reins”), Old Armenian լար (lar, “rope, cord”). The strange suffixation of the Greek comparandum suggests a borrowing from some extinct substrate language, though the ē-ō ablaut in the Greek and Latin forms, respectively, suggest said substrate to be Indo-European. Alternatively, possibly from an earlier *vlōrum, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, round”), the same root as of volvō (“to roll”).

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