delabor Latin · revision 31723

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la lābor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēlābor''' (present infinitive dēlābī, perfect active dēlāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Manilius has the participle spelled ''dēlābsus''.^(OLD 2012)

+ Manuscripts and inscriptions often confuse it with ''dīlābor''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|lābor|t2=to glide, slip]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists [[m|la|lābor]] with the family of [[m|la|labō|t=to totter]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first example in the OLD is Cicero's dream of a man who fell into a river and was seen nowhere.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to fall or drop, also of parts of the body that slip down, as in Celsus, and of standing things that fall, as Tacitus' statue of Victory at Camulodunum.^(OLD 2012) It is also to descend through the air, as Cicero's “a divine man come down from heaven into the province”, to glide down, and of stars to sink.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of water it is to flow down, as in Varro.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to fall into a condition or an illness, to sink into a vice, as Cicero's Appius who slips into buffoonery, of strength to fail, and to drift towards an attitude or into a topic of conversation.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “fall down, glide down, sink”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of falling, descending from heaven and slipping into a topic.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of rainwater flowing down.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of parts of the body slipping down.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of a fallen statue.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|fall]], drop, slip down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To fly or [[m|en|glide]] down, descend; of stars, to sink.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of water, to flow down.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fall into a condition; to sink morally; of strength, to fail.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To drift towards an attitude; to slip into a subject.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēlapsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[labo|alt=labō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}