elaboro Latin · revision 31732

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rutilius Rufus|origins=la labor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eː.ɫaˈboː.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [e.laˈbɔː.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēlabōrō''' (present infinitive ēlabōrāre, perfect active ēlabōrāvī, supine ēlabōrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|labōrō|t2=to work, toil]],^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) from [[m|la|labor|t=toil]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds unconvincing the usual hesitant link between [[m|la|labor]] and [[m|la|labō|t=to totter]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Thesaurus finds the intransitive use from Rutilius Rufus, the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Cicero, and the transitive use from Cicero; among the poets only Horace has it, twice.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Intransitively it is to take pains or exert oneself, as in Cicero's “I will urge him to make an effort”, and Lewis & Short note that Cicero uses it most often.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transitively it is to work something out with care and effort, to perfect or elaborate a literary work or a skill, as Cicero's speeches “worked out with care and burning of the midnight oil”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “elaborate, work out, take pains with”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, intransitively and transitively.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it twice.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1590s – Its past participle gives English [[m|en|elaborate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To take pains, [[m|en|strive]], exert oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To work out with care, [[m|en|perfect]], [[m|en|elaborate]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēlabōrātiō]]

+ * [[ēlabōrātus]]

+ * [[inēlabōrātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[laboro|alt=labōrō]]

+ * [[labor]]

+ * [[en|elaborate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}