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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=la laedō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ɪlˈliː.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ilˈliː.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''illīdō''' (present infinitive illīdere, perfect active illīsī, supine illīsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ It is also spelled ''inlīdō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|in-|laedō|t1=against|t2=to strike, hurt]], with the vowel weakened in the compound.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds no certain cognates for [[m|la|laedō]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Its earliest examples are in Lucretius, of lovers who drive their teeth into the lips, and in Varro, of young birds left in the nest with crushed legs.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means to strike or dash against something, as Virgil's prow that hung dashed on the rocks, and his boxer who drove his gloves into the bones and shattered the brain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and not found in Cicero's prose, and compare [[incutio|alt=incutiō]], [[impingo|alt=impingō]] and [[infligo|alt=īnflīgō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro uses it of crushing and injuring, and Celsus of breath obstructed in the throat during fever.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to strike, knock, dash against.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of teeth driven into lips.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of crushed legs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a prow dashed on rocks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of obstructed breath.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To injure by crushing.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To [[m|en|dash]], strike or beat against; to drive the teeth into.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(medicine)'' To obstruct the breath.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[illīsiō]]
+ * [[illīsus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[laedo|alt=laedō]]
+ * [[collido|alt=collīdō]]
+ * [[allido|alt=allīdō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}