corripio Latin · revision 30668

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔrˈrɪ.pi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [korˈriː.pi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''corripiō''' (present infinitive corripere, perfect active corripuī, supine correptum); third (-iō variant) conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conripiō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|con-|rapiō|t2=to seize]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives the simple verb from [[itc-pro|*rap-i-|t=to seize]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rp-i-]], cognate with [[grc|ἐρέπτομαι|tr=eréptomai|t=to devour, snatch away]] and [[sq|rjep|t=to tear off, rob]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Mercator'': ''ut corripuit sē repente atque abiit!'', “how suddenly he took himself off and went!”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The core sense is seizing quickly: snatching up (''arma corripere'', “to take up arms”), arresting a person (Cicero), catching fire, and hurrying over ground (Virgil's chariots “devour” the plain).^(OLD 2012) It is used of seizing money or a city unlawfully or by force, of floods and whirlwinds sweeping things away, of applause carrying a man away, and of diseases and passions attacking.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace uses it for rebuking someone, and Lucretius for limbs contracting in fear and for shortening (the “shortened daylight”); grammarians from Quintilian on use it of pronouncing a syllable short.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ In Church Latin “reproach, reprove” comes first among its senses, beside “seize, rob, plunder, usurp”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of hurrying off.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of shortening and of limbs contracting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of arresting a man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of rebuking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of pronouncing a syllable short.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|seize]], snatch up, grasp; to arrest.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(of fire)'' To catch.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To hurry over (ground); ''(reflexive)'' to rouse oneself, hurry off.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To seize unlawfully, appropriate, [[m|en|usurp]]; to take (a city) by force.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(of floods, storms)'' To sweep away; to carry away (emotionally).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of diseases, passions)'' To attack, overcome.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|rebuke]], censure, [[m|en|reproach]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To contract (the limbs) convulsively.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To shorten, abridge;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''(grammar)'' to pronounce (a syllable) short.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[correptiō]]

+ * [[correptor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rapiō]]

+ * [[arripiō]]

+ * [[ēripiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}