demergo Latin · revision 32150

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈmɛr.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈmɛr.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēmergō''' (present infinitive dēmergere, perfect active dēmersī, supine dēmersum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|mergō|t1=down|t2=to dip, sink]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|mergō]] to [[itc-pro|*mezge/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*mesg-|t=to sink, wash]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[lt|mazgóti|t=to wash]] and [[lv|mazgât|t=to wash]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates [[m|la|mergō]] from Cicero,^(de Vaan 2008) and the OLD's first example of this compound is his translation of Aratus, where a crow plunges its head under the water.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to submerge something, to sink a ship or its crew, and to plunge or dip into a liquid, as Lucretius' red-hot iron plunged into cold water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pliny the Elder uses it of a river swallowed up by the earth, and Cicero of stars that sink below the horizon.^(OLD 2012) It also means to bury or conceal, as Apuleius' sword buried up to the hilt.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to overwhelm or engulf, as Cicero writes of laws overwhelmed by someone's wealth.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it to sink, drown, submerge, plunge, swallow.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a crow dipping its head and of laws overwhelmed.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of iron plunged into water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a river swallowed by the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of a sword buried to the hilt.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|submerge]]; to sink a ship; to plunge, dip, [[m|en|immerse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To cause to be swallowed up in the earth.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of a heavenly body, to cause to set.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To bury, sink, [[m|en|conceal]]; to bury a weapon; to draw in.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|overwhelm]], engulf in misfortune.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[demersio]]

+ * [[dēmersus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mergo|alt=mergō]]

+ * [[submergo|alt=submergō]]

+ * [[immergo|alt=immergō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}