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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la lābor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eːˈɫaː.bɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈlaː.bor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēlābor''' (present infinitive ēlābī, perfect active ēlāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ The participle is also spelled ''ēlabsus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|ex-|t=out]] and [[lābor|t=to slip, glide]].^(OLD 2012) De Vaan doubts the usual link of ⟨lābor⟩ with [[labō|t=to totter]], since the vowel alternation is hard to explain, and leaves ⟨lābor⟩ without an etymology.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it of a slippery person: “he is an eel, he slips away”;^(Lewis & Short 1879) his ''Captivi'' also has a hope that has slipped away.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to slip or drop out, especially from someone's grasp, of joints to slip out of place in Celsus, of secrets to slip out, and of hopes and memories to pass away or be forgotten, as Ovid's forgotten words.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius uses it of a life that has slipped by unfulfilled, and so English ''elapse''.^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline) Of persons it is to slip off or escape, as Caesar's few who escaped from the battle, also to extricate oneself or escape conviction;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has it of sinking into slavery.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of snakes and fish it is to glide away, as Livy's snake gliding out of a wooden pillar, and of rivers and missiles to glide past.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “slip away, fall out”.^(Stelten 1995) English ''elapse'', of time, is from its participle in the 1640s, through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of an eel-like man and of a lost hope.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of life slipping by.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of men escaping from battle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a snake gliding out of a pillar.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1640s – English [[m|en|elapse]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To slip or drop out; to slip from one's grasp.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of joints, to slip out of place; of secrets, to slip out.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To pass away, fade from memory; of time, to [[m|en|elapse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To slip off, [[m|en|escape]]; to extricate oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of snakes, fish, rivers or missiles, to glide out or away.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lābor]]

+ * [[lāpsus]]

+ * [[dīlābor]]

+ * [[collābor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}