The Anatomy of Tobacco
that name expresses the primary and essential conception of the thing named. So that if we find by investigation that a "thing-for-smoking-tobacco" has always been named a "pipe," and is called so now, then we determine that the word "pipe" expresses the primary, essential, and common meaning of a "thing-for-inhaling-tobacco." Next let us determine the meaning of the word by etymology. It appears that the primary notion expressed by this word is "whistling," hence it was probably framed by onomatopœia, as more plainly appears in the German "pfeiffe" and the Latin "fistula," which do counterfeit in some measure the noise of whistling.[1] Therefore the etymological first intention of the term "pipe" is "something which whistles."
But when we inquire what is the logical first intention, at first sight there appears some difficulty. For to take a good example of first and second intention,
- ↑ See Tully, In Atticum Epistolæ, I., 16, 11. "Itaque et ludis et gladiatoribus mirandas ἐπισημασίας sine ulla pastoricia fistula auferebamus.
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