ilico Latin · revision 31837

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=la in, la locus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈiː.lɪ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈiː.li.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īlicō''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''illicō'', a spelling Lewis & Short call less correct.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a fusion of the phrase ⟨*in stlocō⟩ “in the place”, [[af|la|in|locus|t1=in|t2=place]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|locus]], whose older form was ⟨stlocus⟩; the further origin of that noun is unclear.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Naevius,^(de Vaan 2008) who has “for sixteen years they sit on the spot”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is local, “on the spot, just there”, as in Caecilius' “stay where you are”, mostly in early Latin.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From that it came to mean at that moment, at once, there and then, as in Plautus' “you greeted me the moment you arrived”, and in argument “immediately, from that”, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius of sitting on the spot.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of “at once”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a logical consequence.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # On the spot, there, just here.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # At once, [[m|en|immediately]], there and then.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[locus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}