intereo Latin · revision 30850

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la inter-, ine-pro *h₁ey-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈtɛ.re.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈtɛː.re.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intereō''' (present infinitive interīre, perfect active interiī or interīvī, supine interitum); irregular conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription has the perfect ''interieistī''.^(OLD 2012)

+ Apuleius has ''interīvit''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|inter-|eō|t1=between, among|t2=to go]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The literal sense was to go among other things so as to be lost to view, as Lewis & Short explain.^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|eō]] to [[itc-pro|*ei-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁ey-|t=to go]], with Umbrian and Paelignian cognates.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Poenulus'': ''ut ego hanc familiam interīre cupiō'', “how I want this household to perish”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of living things it is to die or perish, of a race or breed to die out (Gracchus: lest our family die out from the root), and in comedy “to be ruined, done for” (Ennius' ''heu mē miseram, interiī'').^(OLD 2012) Of material things it is to be destroyed or to disappear, as Cicero's countless worlds that arise and perish every day, and of a benefit done to a bad man, to be wasted (Plautus).^(OLD 2012) Of non-material things it is to cease, and of words and customs to fall out of use (Varro).^(OLD 2012) Plautus contrasts dying with being forgotten: ''quī per virtūtem periit, at nōn interit'', “who died bravely, does not perish”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Döderlein lists it among the verbs of dying.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it “die, perish”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a family perishing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius: ''interiī'', “I am done for”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of words falling out of use.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|die]], [[m|en|perish]]; to die out; to be ruined.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To be destroyed, disappear.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be lost, wasted.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To cease; to fall into disuse; to be forgotten.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[interibilis]]

+ * [[interitiō]]

+ * [[interitus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[eō]]

+ * [[pereō]]

+ * [[obeō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}