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Forms

ausō (present infinitive ausāre, perfect active ausāvī, supine ausātum); first conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is a frequentative of audeō (“to dare”).[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The MLW quotes it from the Edict of Rothari (643), of a shepherd who does not dare to swear; the Visigothic formulae have it of someone who did not dare to take an oath.[2][3]

Semantic evolution

It stayed a rare word of early medieval texts with the sense “to dare”.[2][1] Wiktionary knows it only from one manuscript of the Ars Asperi, a grammar attributed to Irish scholars of the seventh century.[1]

Timeline

  • 643 – The Edict of Rothari uses it of a shepherd who does not dare to swear.[2][3]

Meanings

Verb

  1. (Medieval Latin) To dare.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de