prosilio Latin · revision 31908

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sh₂l-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōsiliō''' (present infinitive prōsilīre, perfect active prōsiluī or prōsilīvī or prōsiliī, supine prōsultum); fourth conjugation, third person-only in the passive^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''prōsiluī'', less often ''prōsilīvī'' or ''prōsiliī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ A declamation ascribed to Quintilian has the future ''prōsilibō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prō-|saliō|t2=to leap]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|saliō]] to [[itc-pro|*sal-je-|t=to jump]] and [[ine-pro|*sh₂l-ie/o-|t=to jump]], though he regards the root form as uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008) 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==

+ Its first example in the OLD is in Plautus, where a man says he rushed forward to scold a blameless friend.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to leap or spring forward, rush out, and with ''ad'' to rush into a course of action, as Horace's Ennius, who never sprang to sing of arms unless drunk.^(OLD 2012) Of liquids and the like it is to gush out, as Plautus' tears springing from joy, and of land to jut out, as in Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012) Columella uses it of plants shooting up, and Seneca of things springing suddenly into being.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “spring, leap up”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of rushing forward and of tears springing out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of rushing to sing of arms.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of plants shooting up.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of land jutting out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|leap]] or spring forward, rush forth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To rush eagerly to a course of action.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of liquids, to [[m|en|gush]] out; of land, to jut out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of plants, to shoot up; of things, to spring suddenly into being.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[salio|alt=saliō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}