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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited, onomatopoeia|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *owā-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɔ.woː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɔː.vo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ovō''' (present infinitive ovāre, perfect active ovāvī, supine ovātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ The verb is defective: the first person of the present indicative and the perfect are not used, and the present participle is the commonest form.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ A deponent ''ovor'' is also recorded.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*owā-]], probably from a cry of joy.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan compares [[grc|εὐάζω|tr=euázō|t=to cry for joy]], made from cries such as [[m|grc|εὐαί|tr=euaí]], but notes that the Latin verb cannot be borrowed from Greek, since it shows the Italic change of /eu/ to /ou/; the TLL reports that some think it borrowed.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)

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+ Festus explained the participle as meaning rejoicing, named from the shout of joy, and Plutarch, as Wiktionary reports, connected the ovation with the sacrifice of a sheep, [[m|la|ovis]].^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its special sense is to celebrate an ovation, the lesser triumph in which the general entered the city on foot: Cicero says that the Roman people carried him to the Capitol almost in triumph, and Velleius uses it of a full triumph.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In general it means to exult or rejoice, as in Livy, where Horatius is received with rejoicing, and Virgil's ravens exulting in their throats.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also said of things, as Virgil's exultant flames.^(OLD 2012) Persius has ''ovātum aurum'', gold brought home in triumph, and Tertullian the adverb ''ovanter''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to rejoice.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of being carried to the Capitol in an ovation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a hero received with rejoicing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of exultant flames and birds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To celebrate an [[m|en|ovation]], a lesser [[m|en|triumph]]; also of a full triumph.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|exult]], [[m|en|rejoice]]; of things, to rage exultantly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ovālis]]

+ * [[ovanter]]

+ * [[ovātiō]]

+ * [[ovātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}