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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la trepidus}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈtrɛ.pɪ.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈtrɛː.pi.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''trepidō''' (present infinitive trepidāre, perfect active trepidāvī, supine trepidātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|trepidus|-ō|t1=alarmed, anxious]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is Plautus, of panic.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to act in alarm, panic, be in confusion, as in Plautus; to be anxious, apprehensive, as in Lucilius; to tremble, quiver, as in Lucretius; and to hurry, scurry, bustle, as in Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to tremble, be agitated, swarm about.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius uses it of anxiety.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it of trembling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of bustling.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|panic]], be in alarm.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To hurry, [[m|en|bustle]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|tremble]], quiver.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)
+ # To be anxious.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[attrepido]]
+ * [[intrepidans]]
+ * [[praetrepidō]]
+ * [[trepidātiō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[trepidus]]
+ * [[intrepidus]]
+ * [[en|trepidation]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}