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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=la trahō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈtrɛk.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈtrɛk.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dētrectō''' (present infinitive dētrectāre, perfect active dētrectāvī, supine dētrectātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts and editors divide between ''dētrectō'' and ''dētractō''; both spellings are common.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|tractō|t1=down, away|t2=to handle, drag about]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares both [[m|la|dētrahō|t=to pull off]] and [[m|la|tractō]].^(TLL) De Vaan derives [[m|la|tractō]] from [[m|la|tractus]], the participle of [[m|la|trahō|t=to drag]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*traχe/o-]].^(de Vaan 2008) Festus explained it as to handle badly.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Caesar's ''Gallic War'', of people who should have no refuge for evading military service.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that Cicero does not use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its main sense is to refuse to undertake or undergo something, decline or evade, especially military service, and with an infinitive in the jurists to refuse to do something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) From there it means to speak or write slightingly of, to disparage or belittle, as Ovid's “it is not my way to belittle good deeds”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Gellius uses it of reducing or depreciating, of soils that can impair or improve the nature of trees.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to speak against, disparage, refuse, decline.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of evading military service.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of belittling good deeds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of impairing the nature of trees.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian of refusing to perform a public duty.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To refuse to undertake or undergo, [[m|en|decline]], recoil from, [[m|en|evade]]; with an infinitive, to refuse to.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To speak or write slightingly of, [[m|en|disparage]], belittle.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To reduce, [[m|en|depreciate]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dētrectātiō]]

+ * [[dētrectātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tracto|alt=tractō]]

+ * [[traho|alt=trahō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}