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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *treud-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [deːˈtruː.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈtruː.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''dētrūdō''' (present infinitive dētrūdere, perfect active dētrūsī, supine dētrūsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Plautus has the short perfect ''dētrūstī'' for ''dētrūsistī''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)
+ A line of Lucilius has the participle ''dētrūssus''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|dē-|trūdō|t1=down, away|t2=to thrust]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|trūdō]] to [[itc-pro|*treude/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*treud-|t=to push, thrust]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Mercator'' tells someone in the crowded lanes to push aside and shove away those coming the other way.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means to push away or thrust off, and to force to go, drive off or down: Plautus threatens to drive people off to the mills and then to the well, and Lucilius speaks of someone thrust out of Italy.^(OLD 2012) Cicero defines a man thrust out as one removed by force and driven headlong.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to force someone into a worse situation, or out of an opinion, as Cicero complains of those who pushed him from his view.^(OLD 2012) It can also mean to postpone, as Cicero writes of someone who would put off the elections until Caesar's arrival.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it force away, thrust down.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of pushing people aside.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of someone driven out of Italy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of forcing people and postponing elections.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of a boat forced to the far bank.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To push away, thrust off.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To force to go, drive off or down; to [[m|en|dislodge]], [[m|en|expel]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To force into a less desirable situation; to force out of an opinion or position.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To [[m|en|postpone]].^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[detrusio]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[trudo|alt=trūdō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}