glisco Latin · revision 32093

+ {{infobox|confidence=unknown|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''glīscō''' (present infinitive glīscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

+ A deponent ''gliscor'' is also found.^(OLD 2012)

+ Manuscripts and late texts also spell it ''clisco'' and ''glesco''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is unknown: de Vaan finds no certain cognates.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary reports two proposals, a root [[ine-pro|*ǵʰelh₃-|t=to shine]], with [[m|la|gilvus|t=pale yellow]], [[m|la|helvus|t=yellowish]] and [[grc|χλιάω|tr=khliáō|t=to be warm]], or a root [[m|ine-pro|*gel-|t=to form into a ball]], with [[m|la|glaeba|t=clod]] and [[m|la|glomus|t=ball of thread]].^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short, after Festus, thought it perhaps akin to [[m|la|crēscō|t=to grow]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who in the ''Asinaria'' says “this fight is warming up nicely”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to swell, grow or spread, and Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Accius uses it of numbers increasing, Lucretius of a fire kindling in the breast of the Phrygian Alexander, and Sallust of a wind rising.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of feelings and conditions it means to gain force, and Tacitus uses it of individuals growing in power once the state had grown great.^(OLD 2012) Gellius has it of shellfish that swell as the moon waxes.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is glossed to blaze up, rage, swell.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of enemies increasing in number.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of a fire kindling.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of a wind rising.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of individuals growing in power.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To become distended, [[m|en|swell]], fill out.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|increase]] in number.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of physical forces, to increase in power or violence; to blaze up, spread.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of feelings or conditions, to grow in force.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To grow in power or importance.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To increase in fervour, be elated, [[m|en|glow]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==References==

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