versor Latin · revision 18138

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *wert-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈwɛr.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈvɛr.sor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''versor''' (present infinitive versārī or versārier, perfect active versātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the old infinitive ''versārier'';^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Plautus, Terence and Sallust write ''vors-''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the passive of [[m|la|versō|t=to keep turning]], used in a middle sense, “to turn oneself about”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|versō]] is the frequentative of [[m|la|vertō|t=to turn]],^(OLD 2012) which goes back to [[ine-pro|*wert-|t=to turn]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD cites Plautus: ''versārī crēbrō hīc quom vidērent mē domī'', “when they saw me often about the house here”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Versārī'' is literally “to revolve, turn about”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Its main use is “to be constantly in a place, move among people, live, stay” (Plautus: ''inter istās versārier prōsedās'', “to hang about among those streetwalkers”), and “to behave” in a certain way.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Of conditions it is “to be current, prevail” (Cicero: lands where a bitter war has gone on), of ideas “to be constantly present” (''ante oculōs versārī''), and ''in ōre vulgī versārī'' is to be on everyone's lips.^(OLD 2012)

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+ With ''in'' and the ablative it is “to be involved in” a condition (Terence: ''nescīs quantīs in malīs verser miser'', “you don't know what troubles I am in, poor me”), “to be engaged in, busy oneself with” an activity, of a speaker “to dwell on” a theme, and of things “to be concerned with”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it “dwell, remain, live, stay, occupy oneself with”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''versārī crēbrō hīc'';^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) ''versārier''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''quantīs in malīs verser''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of war going on in a province and of being engaged in an art.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To turn about, revolve.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be (somewhere) constantly; to live, stay, [[m|en|dwell]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To behave, conduct oneself.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To prevail, be current; to be constantly present (to the mind).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To be involved in (a condition).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be engaged in, busy oneself with; to dwell on (a theme).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To be concerned with (of things).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[conversor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[versō]]

+ * [[vertō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}