nudo Latin · revision 31057

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈnuː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈnuː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nūdō''' (present infinitive nūdāre, perfect active nūdāvī, supine nūdātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|nūdus|t=naked]] with the verb ending [[m|la|-ō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan traces ⟨nūdus⟩ to [[itc-pro|*nowoþo-|t=naked]], a form with a suffix shared with Germanic on the root adjective [[ine-pro|*nogʷ-|t=naked]]; it is cognate with [[got|𐌽𐌰𐌵𐌰𐌸𐍃|tr=naqaþs]], [[sa|नग्न|tr=nagná-]], [[grc|γυμνός|tr=gumnós]] and [[sga|nocht]], all “naked”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan gives Ennius as its first author;^(de Vaan 2008) a line of his, quoted by Cicero, calls stripping the body among citizens the beginning of vice.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to strip a person or part of the body, to bare a sword (Livy), to strip the land of its cover, as trees bared by winter in Cicero, to make bald, and to thresh grain.^(OLD 2012) It is to uncover or expose to view, as Lucretius' bared teeth, and in war to leave a camp, a flank or a position unprotected (Caesar).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) A plunderer strips a place bare, as Verres his province, and figuratively it is to deprive someone of something.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “uncover”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 204–169 BC – Ennius of stripping the body.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of bared teeth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of trees stripped by winter and a plundered province.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of a camp left unguarded.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make naked, [[m|en|strip]], bare; to unsheathe (a sword).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To strip (land, trees) of covering, [[m|en|denude]]; to make bald.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To uncover, lay bare, [[m|en|expose]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To leave unprotected, expose to attack.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To plunder, strip bare; to deprive.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēnūdō]]

+ * [[enudo]]

+ * [[nūdātiō]]

+ * [[renūdō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nūdus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}