interfector Latin · revision 32085

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *dʰeh₁-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''interfector''' ''m'' (genitive interfectōris, feminine interfectrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|interficiō|-tor|t1=to kill]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) The verb is [[m|la|inter-]] with [[m|la|faciō|t=to make, do]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*fak-i-]] and to the root [[ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-|t=to put]], with a /k/ that arose in its aorist.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|fakiiad|t=may do]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it in the speech for Milo.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means a person who kills, a killer, murderer or assassin, and the TLL notes that it belongs to prose from Cicero, Nepos and Livy on.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tertullian uses it figuratively of a destroyer, the destroyer of truth.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Döderlein notes that ''[[homicida]]'' is the manslayer in general, as a criminal, while ''interfector'' is the slayer of a particular person, whether the deed is a crime or not.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it killer, slayer.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in the speech for Milo.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian of a destroyer of truth.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|killer]], [[m|en|murderer]], [[m|en|assassin]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A [[m|en|destroyer]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[interfectorius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[interficio|alt=interficiō]]

+ * [[homicida]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}