deprecor Latin · revision 30948

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=204–169 BC, Ennius|origins=ine-pro *preḱ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.prɛ.kɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.pre.kor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēprecor''' (present infinitive dēprecārī, perfect active dēprecātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ An active form ''dēprecō'' appears in glosses, and Apuleius has its participle in a passive sense.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|dē-|precor|t2=to pray]], literally “to pray away”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)^(Etymonline) ⟨Precor⟩ comes from [[m|la|prex|t=prayer]], from [[ine-pro|*preḱ-|t=to ask]], cognate with [[sa|पृच्छति|tr=pṛcchati|t=asks]] and [[got|𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌽|tr=fraihnan|t=to ask]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Ennius, in a tragedy, has a speaker who will spare his own life pray that death fall on his enemy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to try to avert something by prayer, to beg off, and as a polite refusal to beg to be excused: Ovid's Sun asks the one thing it would avoid, a punishment rather than an honour.^(OLD 2012) In a letter of Brutus it is to disapprove of.^(OLD 2012) It is to beg to be let off the results of a deed, as Tacitus' men surrounding Claudius beg pardon for the past.^(OLD 2012) It is to entreat someone, to pray for something (Cicero: I never asked anything for myself), to beg mercy for a person or oneself (''arma dēpōnat, roget, dēprecētur'', “let him lay down arms, ask, beg mercy”), and in Apuleius to call down curses.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “entreat, pray, supplicate”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''deprecate'' (1620s), first “to pray against”, comes from its past participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of praying death onto an enemy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of entreating and begging mercy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of begging to be excused.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of begging pardon.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1620s – English [[m|en|deprecate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To try to avert by prayer; to beg to be excused, decline; to [[m|en|deprecate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To beg pardon for (a deed).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|entreat]], intercede with; to pray for.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To beg [[m|en|mercy]] (for oneself or another).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To call down (curses).^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēprecābilis]]

+ * [[dēprecābundus]]

+ * [[dēprecāneus]]

+ * [[dēprecātiō]]

+ * [[dēprecātīvus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dēprecātiuncula]]

+ * [[dēprecātōrius]]

+ * [[dēprecātrīx]]

+ * [[precor]]

+ * [[prex]]

+ * [[en|deprecate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}