erubesco Latin · revision 31101

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁rudʰ-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eː.rʊˈbeːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [e.ruˈbɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ērubēscō''' (present infinitive ērubēscere, perfect active ērubuī); third conjugation, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts of Seneca, Ambrose and Jerome also spell it ''ērubisc-''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|ex-|t=out]] and [[m|la|rubēscō|t=to grow red]], the inchoative of [[m|la|rubeō|t=to be red]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives the root of ⟨rubeō⟩ and [[m|la|ruber|t=red]] from [[itc-pro|*ruþro-|t=red]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rudʰ-ró-|t=red]], cognate with [[xum|rufru|t=red]], [[grc|ἐρυθρός|tr=eruthrós|t=red]] and [[sa|रुधिर|tr=rudhirá-|t=red, bloody]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first example in the OLD is Plautus' ''Truculentus'': “I blushed, poor me, because of your shouting”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is above all to blush for shame, to feel ashamed: with the ablative of the cause, as Livy's “there is nothing I need blush for”, with ''in'' and the ablative, as Cicero's thing “at which even peasants would blush”, and with the infinitive, as Virgil's Muse who “did not blush to dwell in the woods”.^(OLD 2012) Transitively it is to be ashamed of or to respect someone, as the invective against Sallust ascribed to Cicero, whose speaker “did not blush before your faces”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In general it is to grow red, as Ovid's cheeks and stones reddened with roses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “be ashamed, blush, grow red”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of blushing for shame.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero with ''in'' and the ablative.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil with the infinitive.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of reddening in general.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|blush]] for shame, feel ashamed (of, to); ''(transitive)'' to feel shame before, respect.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To become red, [[m|en|redden]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[erubescentia]]

+ * [[erubescibilis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rubēscō]]

+ * [[rubeō]]

+ * [[ruber]]

+ * [[pudet]]

+ * [[en|erubescent]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}