corruo Latin · revision 10215

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Livius Andronicus|origins=ine-pro *h₃rew-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkɔr.ru.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔr.ru.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corruō''' (present infinitive corruere, perfect active corruī, supine corrutum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''conruō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|ruō|t2=to rush, fall]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨ruō⟩ “to rush” to [[itc-pro|*rowe/o-]], [[ine-pro|*h₃rew-e/o-|t=to run, hurry]], cognate with [[grc|ὀρούω|tr=oroúō|t=to rush]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Livius Andronicus, of falling down.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to fall down, collapse, of people, animals and buildings, as in Cicero's ''aedēs corruērunt'' “the house fell in”; figuratively to be ruined, fail, come to grief, as in Cicero; in Seneca to rush together; and, less often, it was transitive.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means to fall to the ground, sink down, be ruined.^(Stelten 1995) French ''crouler'' and Italian ''crollare'' “to collapse” may go back to it.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a collapsing house and of ruin.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of rushing together.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To fall down, [[m|en|collapse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To be ruined, [[m|en|fail]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To rush together.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ruō]]

+ * [[ruīna]]

+ * [[dīruō]]

+ * [[obruō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}