destringo Latin · revision 32208

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *stri-n-g-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēstringō''' (present infinitive dēstringere, perfect active dēstrīnxī, supine dēstrictum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts often confuse it with [[distringo|alt=distringō]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|stringō|t1=off, down|t2=to strip, draw tight]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|stringō]] in the sense to strip off to [[itc-pro|*string-|t=to strip off]] and [[ine-pro|*stri-n-g-|t=to brush, strip]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[goh|strīhhan|t=to brush]] and [[ang|strīcan|t=to brush, rub]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates [[m|la|stringō]] from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008) and Lewis & Short's first example of this compound is Cato's ''On Agriculture'', of stripping oats.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to strip off leaves, fruit or ears, as Columella's olives and myrtle berries and Manilius' grain stripped from the brittle stalk, and to strip off clothes, as Phaedrus' tunic pulled from the shoulders.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the baths it is to rub down with a strigil, as Pliny the Younger describes someone being scraped and dried, and Pliny the Elder uses it of scouring the bowels.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it of grazing, as a reed that grazed the surface of the body, and of birds skimming the water, and figuratively of wounding by criticism.^(OLD 2012) Above all it is to draw or unsheathe a weapon, as Cicero's drawn sword.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of stripping oats.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a drawn sword.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of grazing and skimming.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD – Phaedrus of a tunic stripped off.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To strip off; to strip the clothes from.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To rub down with a [[m|en|strigil]]; to scour the bowels.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To graze, touch lightly; to wound by criticism.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To draw, [[m|en|unsheathe]] a weapon.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[destrictārium]]

+ * [[indestrictus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stringo|alt=stringō]]

+ * [[strigilis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}