transilio Latin · revision 31826

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [trãːˈsɪ.li.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [tranˈsiː.li.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''trānsiliō''' (present infinitive trānsilīre, perfect active trānsiluī); fourth conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''transs-''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The perfect is usually ''trānsiluī'';^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''trānsilīvī'' occurs in Plautus and Pliny the Elder, and ''trānsiliī'' in Seneca and the ''Bellum Hispaniense''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|trāns-|saliō|t2=to jump, leap]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨saliō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*saljō|alt=*sal-je-|t=to jump]] and [[ine-pro|*sh₂l-ie/o-|t=to jump]], cognate with [[grc|ἅλλομαι|tr=hállomai|t=to jump]] and [[sga|saltraid|t=to trample]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whose ''Truculentus'' a young man leapt over through the garden behind his father's back.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is “to leap across” and, with an object, “to jump over”, as Virgil's Turnus leaping over the high gangways.^(OLD 2012) Florus uses it of travelling swiftly over great distances.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Figuratively it is to pass abruptly from one course to another, as Seneca's people who jump from one plan to the next; to skip over a point in argument, as Cicero's passing over what lies at one's feet; and to overstep limits: Varro says a poet may cross the lines with impunity.^(OLD 2012) Seneca also has an illness passing lightly over someone who bears it.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “leap over, skip over, neglect, hasten past”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of leaping over a wall.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of overstepping limits.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of jumping over gangways.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|leap]] across, jump over; to travel swiftly far.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To pass abruptly to something else.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To pass over, [[m|en|skip]], neglect; of an illness, to pass by.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|overstep]], exceed limits.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[transilis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[saliō]]

+ * [[trānsilītiō]]

+ * [[trānsilītor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}