sitio Latin · revision 31502

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsɪ.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsit.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sitiō''' (present infinitive sitīre, perfect active sitīvī or sitiī, supine sitītum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[sitis|t=thirst]] with the verbal suffix [[m|la|-iō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan derives ⟨sitis⟩ from [[itc-pro|*(k)siti-]] and [[ine-pro|*dʰgʷʰi-ti-|t=destruction, perishing]], cognate with [[grc|φθίνω|tr=phthínō|t=to waste away, perish]]; the initial cluster was reduced to ⟨s-⟩ through a metathesis.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates the noun from Plautus;^(de Vaan 2008) the verb is in a Plautine prologue: “I can tell, nobody is thirsty”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to be thirsty, as Plautus' “I am hungry and thirsty”, and in medicine to refrain from drinking.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transitively it is to thirst for something, as Ovid's “the more they drink, the more water they thirst for”, by hyperbole for spilt blood, and figuratively to long for or desire eagerly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Of land and crops it is to be parched or need water, as in Cato.^(OLD 2012) In a passage of Pliny the Elder on the moon its sense is uncertain.^(OLD 2012)

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

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of thirsty people.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of parched land.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of thirsting for water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|thirst]], be thirsty; to abstain from drinking.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To thirst for; to [[m|en|long]] for, desire eagerly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of land, to be parched, need water.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sitītor]]

+ * [[sitītrīx]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ēsuriō]]

+ * [[sitis]]

+ * [[sitīculōsus]]

+ * [[sitiēns]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}