exuo Latin · revision 30705

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɛk.su.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛk.su.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exuō''' (present infinitive exuere, perfect active exuī, supine exūtum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|ex-|t=out of, off]] and a verb ⟨*uō⟩ “to put on” that is found only in compounds, the opposite of [[m|la|induō|t=to put on]]; [[m|la|exuviae|t=stripped-off things]] and [[m|la|subūcula|t=undershirt]] contain it too.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The OLD and Wiktionary compare [[cu|обути|tr=obuti|t=to put on (shoes)]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Menaechmi'': ''sī nōn saltās, exue igitur'', “if you won't dance, then take it off” (a cloak).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is taking off clothes or anything attached to the body, and stripping off a skin.^(OLD 2012) It then means laying bare the body (Virgil's boxer strips his huge limbs), releasing someone from something, and pulling out a thing, as Statius' warrior draws the spear from his wound.^(OLD 2012) In war it is to strip an enemy of arms or a camp, as in Caesar's ''omnīs armīs exuit''.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to put away a quality or habit (Cicero: would you have put off all humanity?) and to cast off a relationship, as Tacitus' converts who renounce their country.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “strip off, divest, deprive, despoil, put off, deliver”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of stripping enemies of arms.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of putting off humanity.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of renouncing one's country.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To take off, [[m|en|doff]] (clothing); to strip off (a skin).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To lay bare, [[m|en|strip]] (the body).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To release, set free; to draw out (a thing).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|deprive]] (of arms, possessions, a position).^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To put aside, cast off (a quality, habit, role or tie).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exutio]]

+ * [[exuvium]]

+ * [[exuviae]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[induō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}