commoror Latin · revision 31749

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɔm.mɔ.rɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkɔm.mo.ror]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''commoror''' (present infinitive commorārī, perfect active commorātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Priscian records an active ''commorō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|moror|t2=to delay]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan takes [[m|la|moror]] either as a verb made from [[m|la|mora|t=delay]] or as an old iterative; the noun goes back to [[itc-pro|*morā]] and [[ine-pro|*morh₂-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|maraid|t=lasts, remains]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Amphitruo'' has it transitively: “has an omen delayed you?”^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is to detain or delay, but it is mostly intransitive: to stay or remain somewhere, as in Terence's “why did you stay there so long?”, to wait or be inactive, and to continue in a state, as Cicero's staying under arms in the civil war.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In rhetoric it is to dwell on a point, as in Cicero's ''Orator''.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “tarry, stay, abide, dwell”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of being delayed by an omen.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of staying somewhere.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of dwelling on a point.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of delayed menstruation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|detain]], delay.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|stay]], remain, [[m|en|linger]]; to wait, be inactive.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To continue in a state or condition.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' To dwell on a point.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moror]]

+ * [[mora]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}