diripio Latin · revision 30826

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la dis-, ine-pro *h₁rep-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīripiō''' (present infinitive dīripere, perfect active dīripuī, supine dīreptum); third (-iō variant) conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|dis-|rapiō|t1=apart|t2=to seize, snatch]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|rapiō]] to [[itc-pro|*rapi-|t=to seize]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rp-i-|t=to seize]], 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'': ''Pentheum dīripuisse aiunt Bacchās'', “they say the Bacchants tore Pentheus to pieces”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is tearing to pieces, and tearing something away, as Ovid's Byblis tears the dress from her breast.^(OLD 2012) It is to snatch a share of something, as Virgil's Harpies snatch the food, and Seneca uses it of a lawyer whom the whole forum competes for.^(OLD 2012) Cato already uses it of seizing people's goods as plunder, and its most common sense is to plunder or loot people and places: Cicero accuses Verres of letting the farmers be robbed.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Döderlein explains that [[vāstō]] is to lay waste from rage or policy, while [[populor]] and ''dīripere'' are to plunder for one's own use: ''populārī'' on a large scale, driving off herds and destroying crops, ''dīripere'' on a small scale, breaking into houses.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it “plunder, rob, despoil”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of the Bacchants tearing Pentheus apart.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of plundering goods.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of robbing farmers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the Harpies snatching food.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tear to pieces; to tear away.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To snatch, scramble for; to compete for (a person).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To seize as plunder, steal.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|plunder]], [[m|en|loot]], [[m|en|pillage]] (a place or people).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dīreptiō]]

+ * [[dīreptor]]

+ * [[direptus]]

+ * [[indīreptus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rapiō]]

+ * [[vāstō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}