deripio Latin · revision 32099

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁rp-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈrɪ.pi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈriː.pi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēripiō''' (present infinitive dēripere, perfect active dēripuī, supine dēreptum); third (-iō variant) conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|rapiō|t1=down, away|t2=to seize]], with the vowel weakened in the compound.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|rapiō]] to [[itc-pro|*rap-i-|t=to seize]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rp-|t=to seize]], the zero grade of a root [[m|ine-pro|*h₁rep-]];^(de Vaan 2008) Schrijver posits a separate root for it.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|ἐρέπτομαι|tr=eréptomai|t=to devour, snatch away]], [[sq|rjep|t=to tear off, rob]] and [[lt|aprė́pti|t=to take, catch]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who in the ''Menaechmi'' has a slave cry out at the outrage of his master being snatched away in the street.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is to tear or pull something off what it adheres to, as Virgil's vine-dresser pulls the boots off his legs to tread the grapes, and so to remove peremptorily, as Cicero speaks of rashness of false opinion being torn away.^(OLD 2012) It also means to seize and carry off, and to pull down bodily: Lucretius has lionesses dragging men down from behind.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is frequent in the poets.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In manuscripts it is often confused with [[diripio|alt=dīripiō]], and a late treatise on differences of words distinguished them: ''deripere'' is to drag from above downwards, ''diripere'' to tear apart in different directions.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to tear or snatch away.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a man snatched away in the street.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of lionesses pulling men down.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of false opinions torn away.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of boots pulled off the legs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|tear]] or pull off something adhering to a body or object.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To remove peremptorily.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To seize and take away, [[m|en|snatch]] away, grab.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To pull down bodily, tear down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Isidore's ''Differentiae'' explain the difference between ''deripio'' and ''[[diripio|alt=dīripiō]]'': the first takes something from a higher place to a lower, the second tears it to pieces.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}