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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la turba}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ɛkˈstʊr.boː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ekˈstur.bo]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''exturbō''' (present infinitive exturbāre, perfect active exturbāvī, supine exturbātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ The Vulgate has the spelling ''esturbo''.^(TLL)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|ex-|turbō|t2=to disturb, upset]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) and [[m|la|turbō]] is made from [[m|la|turba|t=commotion, crowd]].^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan finds the connection of [[m|la|turba]] with [[sa|त्वरते|tr=tvarate|t=hurries]] very uncertain in form, and mentions as another possibility [[grc|στρέφω|tr=stréphō|t=to turn]], though no other cognates are known.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Its first examples in the OLD are in Plautus, where a man is driven out of his house.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means to drive or thrust out, expel, and of a wife to divorce her, as Cicero's daughter driven out of the house.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus also uses it of forcing out eyes and teeth, of driving grief out of the mind, and of throwing everything into disorder.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short give it as classical, with ''[[expello|alt=expellō]]'' and ''[[eicio|alt=ēiciō]]'' as synonyms.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it “drive away”.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of driving a man from his house.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a divorced wife.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To drive out, [[m|en|expel]], [[m|en|eject]]; to divorce a wife.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To force a thing out of its place.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|banish]] something from the mind.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To throw into disorder.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[turbo|alt=turbō]]
+ * [[turba]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}