illudo Latin · revision 31591

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la lūdō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''illūdō''' (present infinitive illūdere, perfect active illūsī, supine illūsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''inlūdō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Gellius has the first-conjugation form ''illudiābant''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|lūdō|t2=to play]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan derives ⟨lūdō⟩ from [[itc-pro|*loid-e/o-|t=to play]] and [[ine-pro|*loid-|t=to let go frequently, play]], cognate with [[lt|léisti|t=to let]] and [[mga|laídid|t=impels]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest examples are from Terence, of making fun of someone: “you mock me quite arrogantly enough”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to make game of, mock, and to fool or dupe: in Cicero someone thought he was being tricked, or that the man himself was wrong.^(OLD 2012) Terence also uses it of trifling something away: in trying to oblige, a father nearly “fooled away” his daughter's life.^(OLD 2012) Virgil uses it of garments decked out with gold, and Silius Italicus and Tacitus of sexual abuse.^(OLD 2012) Lewis and Short call the sense “to ruin, destroy in sport” chiefly poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin has it for mock, delude, deceive, deride.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|illude]] (early 15th century), “to trick, deceive”, is from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of mocking and of trifling away.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of duping.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of garments decked with gold.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English [[m|en|illude]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make game of, [[m|en|mock]], ridicule, jeer at.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(poetic)'' To deck out, adorn.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fool, [[m|en|dupe]], deceive.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To fool or trifle away; to ruin, destroy in sport.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To abuse sexually.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[illudium]]

+ * [[illūsiō]]

+ * [[illūsor]]

+ * [[illūsīvus]]

+ * [[illūsōrius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lūdō]]

+ * [[lūdus]]

+ * [[en|illude]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}