lasso Latin · revision 31851

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 55–19/18 BC, Tibullus|origins=ine-pro *leh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫas.soː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlas.so]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lassō''' (present infinitive lassāre, perfect active lassāvī, supine lassātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a denominative verb [[der|la|lassus|t=tired]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The adjective [[m|la|lassus]] goes back to [[itc-pro|*lassos]] and [[ine-pro|*lh₁d-tó-|t=tired]], with a d-extension of the root [[ine-pro|*leh₁-|t=to let]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[got|𐌻𐌰𐍄𐍃|tr=lats|t=slow]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Thesaurus calls it mainly a poetic word, found in a tragic fragment of uncertain date and then in Tibullus and later poets;^(TLL) Lewis & Short think it perhaps not earlier than Augustus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tibullus has “when he has wearied the young man with stolen love”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to make tired or weary, also reflexively, as in Seneca's man who wore himself out day and night.^(OLD 2012) Ovid uses it of hard wars that wore out active men and of fields worn down by ploughing.^(OLD 2012) It is also to tire by satiety, as in Seneca, and to weaken or exhaust things, as Manilius' stars, and prayers, in the elder Seneca.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “make weary, tire, exhaust”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 55–19/18 BC – Tibullus of a weary young man.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of wars and ploughed fields.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of tiring oneself and of satiety.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|tire]], [[m|en|weary]], fatigue.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To wear out; to wear down with use.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To weary by satiety.^(OLD 2012)

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

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēlassō]]

+ * [[lassēscō]]

+ * [[praelassātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lassus]]

+ * [[lassitudo|alt=lassitūdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}