egero Latin · revision 32070

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato the Elder|origins=ine-pro *h₂ǵ-es-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈeː.ɡɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.d͡ʒe.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēgerō''' (present infinitive ēgerere, perfect active ēgessī, supine ēgestum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|gerō|t2=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces [[m|la|gerō]] to [[itc-pro|*ges-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂ǵ-es-|t=to carry]], a derivative of the root of [[m|la|agō|t=to drive]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first example in the OLD is in Cato the Elder: “carry the dung out to the dunghill”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to carry out or away, and in Statius to carry out the dead for burial.^(OLD 2012) It is to take out or remove, as earth dug from trenches, booty from enemy houses and money from the treasury in Livy, to expel people from a city, to bale out water and to drain off rivers.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note it is mostly post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to discharge or send forth, as a crater emitting bitumen in Pliny the Elder, to discharge from the body by vomiting or excretion, and to emit sounds.^(OLD 2012) Pliny uses it of bringing forth offspring, Ovid of grief poured out in tears, and a declamation of money spent on feasts.^(OLD 2012) English ''egest'' (c. 1600) comes from its participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato the Elder of carrying out dung.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of booty and money taken out.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of baling water and of grief poured out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a crater discharging bitumen.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1600 – English [[m|en|egest]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To carry out or away; to carry out for burial.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To take out, remove, extract; to expel; to bale out water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|discharge]], emit; to discharge from the body, [[m|en|vomit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bring forth offspring; to yield produce.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To pour out emotions; to express.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To use up, spend money.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēgeriēs]]

+ * [[ēgestiō]]

+ * [[ēgestus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gero|alt=gerō]]

+ * [[digero|alt=dīgerō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD records a doubtful noun ''ēgerō'', ''-ōnis'', “a carrier-out”, made from the verb.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}