expeto Latin · revision 18043

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la petō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɛk.spɛ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɛk.spe.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''expetō''' (present infinitive expetere, perfect active expetīvī or expetiī, supine expetītum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''expetīvī'' or ''expetiī''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|ex-|petō|t2=to seek, aim at]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|petō]] to [[itc-pro|*pet-e/o-]] and a root [[ine-pro|*pet-|t=to fly]], with a shift from “fly” to “fly towards, try to get”; cognate with [[grc|πέτομαι|tr=pétomai|t=to fly]] and [[sa|पतति|tr=pátati|t=flies]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has ''ut Iovis suprēmī multīs hostiīs pācem expetam'', “to beg the peace of supreme Jupiter with many victims”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Expetere'' is “to ask for, request” (Cicero: he sought help from him though absent), and “to exact” a penalty.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is to seek out a person, “to want, court” (Plautus: ''tē vult, tē quaerit''), also with hostile intent (Ennius: ''adsunt, mē expetunt'', “they are here, they are after me”).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) With things it is “to seek after, covet, aim at”, with an infinitive “to desire to”, and of a place “to make for”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Intransitively it is “to come about, befall” (Plautus: many things befall a slave).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “to desire, seek eagerly”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''pācem expetam''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius: ''adsunt, mē expetunt''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''ab hōc auxilium absente expetīvit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To ask for, [[m|en|request]]; to exact (a penalty).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To seek out, court (a person); to go after (an enemy).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To seek after, [[m|en|desire]], [[m|en|covet]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To make for (a place).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' To happen, befall.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[expetibilis]]

+ * [[expetītor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[expetēns]]

+ * [[expetenter]]

+ * [[expetessō]]

+ * [[expetissō]]

+ * [[expetitio]]

+ * [[expetitus]]

+ * [[petō]]

+ * [[appetō]]

+ * [[repetō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}