defleo Latin · revision 31669

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.fɫe.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.fle.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēfleō''' (present infinitive dēflēre, perfect active dēflēvī, supine dēflētum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|fleō|t2=to weep]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan traces ⟨fleō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*flē-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰleh₁-|t=to bleat, cry]], cognate with [[lv|blêt|t=to bleat]] and [[ang|blǣtan|alt=blætan|t=to bleat]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Plautus, Lucretius and Cicero on;^(TLL) in Plautus' ''Captivi'' someone asks “should I not weep for such a young man?”^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to weep for the dead, and to mourn the loss of a thing: in Plautus a parasite laments the dinners he has seen die.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius has mourners who wept over the burned body.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to lament an event, as Cicero's departure which his friend had often bewailed, and to lament in writing, as Seneca of a historian who mourned the civil wars.^(OLD 2012) Rarely, without an object, it is to weep bitterly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “weep over, bewail, lament”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of mourning a young man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of mourning the dead.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To weep for, [[m|en|bewail]]; to mourn the loss of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|lament]], [[m|en|deplore]]; to lament in writing.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To weep bitterly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[defletio]]

+ * [[indēflētus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[affleō]]

+ * [[diffleō]]

+ * [[effleō]]

+ * [[fleō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}