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interiaceo

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ɪn.tɛrˈja.ke.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [in.terˈjaː.t͡ʃe.o][1]

Forms

interiaceō (present infinitive interiacēre, perfect active interiacuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem[1] It is also spelled interjaceō.[1][2]

Etymology

It is from Latin inter- + iaceō (“to lie”).[3][1] De Vaan explains iaceō as the stative partner of iaciō (“to throw”), “to be thrown down”, hence “to lie”,[4] and traces it to Proto-Italic *jak-ē- (“to lie down”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *(H)ieh₁- (“to throw, let go”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis & Short note that it is not in Cicero or Caesar;[2] Livy has a space of empty plain lying between, spatio quod vacui interiacebat campi.[3]

Semantic evolution

It means to lie or extend between, intransitively or with a dative or an accusative:[3][2] Livy has the plain between Capua and Tifata and the plain lying between the Tiber and the walls of Rome,[3][2] and the letters of Pliny and Trajan a road lying between.[2] It also means to be between in time, as in Seneca's “all the time that lies between is heavy”,[3] and in a series, as when Quintilian says that many things lie between these extremes.[3]

Timeline

  • 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of plains lying between.[3][2][5]
  • 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of intervening time.[3][5]
  • c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of things in between.[3][5]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To lie or extend between.[3][2][1]
  2. To be between, intervene, in time or in a series.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  5. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de