pollingo.
to wash a corpse in preparation for a funeral
Meaning & usage
to wash a corpse in preparation for a funeral
Where this word comes from
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".
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