latito Latin · revision 31989

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *lh₂-to-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫa.tɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlaː.ti.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''latitō''' (present infinitive latitāre, perfect active latitāvī, supine latitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lateō|-itō|t1=to lie hidden]], a frequentative.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan takes [[m|la|lateō]] as a stative verb made from an adjective “hidden”, from [[itc-pro|*latē-]] and [[ine-pro|*lh₂-to-|t=hidden]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|λανθάνω|tr=lanthánō|t=to be hidden]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who has “why was that idlest of men hiding from me?”^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to be or stay in hiding, to lie low, as Cicero's Oppianicus in hiding and Horace's lurking boar;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it rare but Classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The jurist Pomponius uses it transitively, to hide from someone.^(OLD 2012) Of things it is to lie concealed, as Lucretius' view that everything lies hidden mixed in everything, and to be secret or obscure, as meanings hidden under inverted words.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it “be concealed, lie hidden”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of things lying hidden and of obscure meanings.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of Oppianicus in hiding.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a lurking boar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be in hiding, lie low, [[m|en|lurk]]; to hide from someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of things, to lie [[m|en|concealed]]; to be secret or obscure.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[latitābundus]]

+ * [[latitātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lateo|alt=lateō]]

+ * [[latebra]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate rare verb ''lātitō'' “to carry often” is made from [[m|la|lātus]], the participle of [[ferō]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}