crepo Latin · revision 31840

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ḱrep-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkrɛ.poː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkrɛː.po]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''crepō''' (present infinitive crepāre, perfect active crepuī); first conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*krepa-]], from [[ine-pro|*ḱrep-|t=to rattle, crackle]].^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD calls it onomatopoeic.^(OLD 2012) Cognate with [[hit|karpi-|t=anger]] and [[sa|कृपते|tr=kṛ́pate|t=groans]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan suggests the vowel of the present may come from the perfect ⟨crepuī⟩, and that Varro's ⟨percrepis⟩ may be a remnant of a third-conjugation verb.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose miser in the ''Aulularia'' asks “what rattled like iron just now?”^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to make a sharp noise, to rattle, clatter, creak or crackle: of doors opening in Plautus and Terence, of burning herbs in Propertius, and in Cato and Martial of breaking wind.^(OLD 2012) Seneca uses it of a house that collapsed with a crash.^(OLD 2012) Transitively it is to make something rattle;^(OLD 2012) Horace and later writers use it of rattling out words, of talking on and on about something.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic or post-Augustan, classical prose preferring [[concrepō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “crack, burst asunder, resound”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of rattling iron and creaking doors.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of breaking wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of harping on a subject.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of a house that collapsed.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English [[m|en|crevice]] comes through Old French from a Vulgar Latin derivative.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|rattle]], clatter, [[m|en|creak]], crackle; to break wind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To break with a crack.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To make something rattle.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To rattle out, keep talking about; to [[m|en|boast]] of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[concrepō]]

+ * [[crepātūra]]

+ * [[crepax]]

+ * [[crepitō]]

+ * [[crepitulum]]

+ * [[crepitus]]

+ * [[crepulus]]

+ * [[dēcrepitus]]

+ * [[discrepō]]

+ * [[percrepō]]

+ * [[praecrepo]]

+ * [[recrepō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|crevice]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}