interitus Latin · revision 30944

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h₁ey-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈtɛ.rɪ.tʊs], [ɪnˈtɛ.rɪ.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [inˈtɛː.ri.tus], [inˈtɛː.ri.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''interitus''' ''m'' (genitive interitūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|intereō|t=to perish]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb is [[m|la|inter-]] with [[m|la|eō|t=to go]], which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*h₁ey-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Cicero as its first author.^(Köbler 2010) Cicero defines it as a kind of departure, separation and parting of things that were held together.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is violent or untimely death, as Cicero's mourning for an orator's early end, and the extinction of a family (Cicero).^(OLD 2012) It is the destruction of things, as Catiline plotting the destruction of the city, of institutions, as the fall and ruin of the state, and of qualities: Cicero asks what philosophy it is that does not destroy depravity.^(OLD 2012) An inscription uses it of the setting of the sun.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “death, destruction, overthrow, annihilation”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of untimely death and the ruin of the state.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Violent or untimely [[m|en|death]]; [[m|en|extinction]] (of a family).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # [[m|en|destruction|alt=Destruction]], ruin, [[m|en|annihilation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The setting (of the sun).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[intereō]]

+ * [[eō]]

+ * [[exitus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}