exedo Latin · revision 31712

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁ed-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exedō''' (present infinitive exedere or exēsse, perfect active exēdī, supine exēsum or exēssum or exēstum); third conjugation, irregular alternative forms^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the archaic subjunctive ''exedint'' and the participle ''exessus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ Seneca has the later present ''exedit'' for ''exest''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|edō|t2=to eat]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The verb [[m|la|edō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*edō]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁ed-|t=to eat]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first example in the OLD is Plautus' screech owls that would eat out the guests' innards.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to eat up or devour, and to eat away, as Apuleius' viper that eats its way out of its mother's womb.^(OLD 2012) Of fire and corrosive things it is to eat away or consume, as in Cicero, and to waste away, as Seneca's wasted flanks; figuratively Petronius has usury sapping the strength of the people.^(OLD 2012) It is also to hollow out, as the cave in the ''Bellum Hispaniense'', and of passions to consume, as Plautus' “I am eaten up with waiting”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of eating up and of being eaten up with waiting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius of usury sapping the people.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of a viper eating its way out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To eat up, [[m|en|devour]]; to eat away.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of fire or corrosion, to consume, [[m|en|corrode]]; to waste away.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make [[m|en|hollow]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of passions, to consume.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exēsor]]

+ * [[inexesus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[edo|alt=edō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}