abripio Latin · revision 31847

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁rp-i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [abˈrɪ.pi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [abˈriː.pi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abripiō''' (present infinitive abripere, perfect active abripuī, supine abreptum); third (-iō variant) conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Late texts, including the Itala, also have ''abrapiō''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ab-|rapiō|t2=to seize, snatch]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb [[m|la|rapiō]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*rap-i-|t=to seize]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rp-i-|t=to seize]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ἐρέπτομαι|tr=eréptomai|t=to devour, snatch]] and [[lt|ap-rė́pti|t=to take, catch]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it seven times,^(TLL) as in “so that nobody carries off the bride”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to remove by force, drag or snatch away, as Dido's wish in Virgil that she had torn away and scattered Aeneas' body, and to carry off, as in Livy's horse that carried Lentulus away in the confusion.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it figuratively, of nature drawing a son away from his father's likeness.^(OLD 2012) Of winds and rivers it is to sweep away, as Virgil's south wind that hurls three ships on hidden rocks.^(OLD 2012) It is also to abduct or kidnap, and to seize as booty.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it stronger than [[abdūcō]], [[abigō]] and [[abstrahō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “drag or tear away”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of carrying off a bride.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero figuratively.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of Dido's wish and of ships swept onto rocks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a horse carrying off its rider.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To drag away, [[m|en|snatch]] away by force; to carry off by death.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To carry away, remove; reflexively, to hurry away; figuratively, to rescue.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of winds and rivers, to sweep away.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|abduct]], [[m|en|kidnap]]; to seize as booty.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abreptus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rapio|alt=rapiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}