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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=la lābor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīlābor''' (present infinitive dīlābī, perfect active dīlāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions often spell the participle ''dilabsum''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|lābor|t2=to slip, glide]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Wiktionary connects ⟨lābor⟩ with [[labō|t=to totter]] and perhaps [[ine-pro|*(s)leh₂b-|t=to hang loosely, be weak]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest use in the OLD is a line of Naevius, “ill-gotten, ill-spent”, literally “things badly got go badly to pieces”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used of liquids running away in different directions, of snow and ice melting, and of clouds dispersing: Cicero has the Fibrenus dividing and quickly flowing together again.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Crowds and armies melt away, as in Sallust's army of mixed peoples, ghosts vanish into thin air, and time passes.^(OLD 2012) Things also fall to pieces: Cicero writes of the ordered world perishing, and possessions and states decay.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius of ill-gotten goods coming to nothing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of melting ice and a world falling apart.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of an army melting away.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # Of liquids, to flow away or apart; to [[m|en|melt]] away, [[m|en|dissolve]]; of clouds, to disperse.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of crowds, to slip away, scatter; of a vision, to vanish; of time, to pass.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To slip away, [[m|en|escape]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To fall to pieces, [[m|en|disintegrate]]; to collapse; to go to ruin, decay.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dīlābidus]]

+ * [[dilapsio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lābor]]

+ * [[labō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}