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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *treud-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ˈtruː.doː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtruː.do]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''trūdō''' (present infinitive trūdere, perfect active trūsī, supine trūsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*treude/o-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*treud-|t=to push, thrust]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[cy|cythrudd|t=to vex]], [[lt|triū̃sas|t=work, effort, pains]], [[cu|трудъ|tr=trudŭ|t=labour, work]], [[got|𐌿𐍃𐌸𐍂𐌹𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽|tr=usþriutan|t=to maltreat]] and [[non|þrjóta|t=to lack]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) De Vaan compares above all the Germanic verb, which points to a thematic verb with e-grade.^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose ''Captivi'' complains that it is violence to be dragged and pushed at once.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means to thrust, push or shove, and of a plant to push out shoots, as Virgil's root that is pushed out of dry wood.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to drive in a given direction, as Horace's hunter driving boars into the nets.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to force someone into an action or situation: Cicero warns of the lower step of death or slavery into which the gods advise “we should not be thrust”.^(OLD 2012) In Terence one trick drives on another.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it push, thrust, press, shove.^(Stelten 1995)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of being pushed about.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of one trick driving on another.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of being forced into a situation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a root pushing out shoots.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of boars driven into nets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|thrust]], push, [[m|en|shove]]; of a plant, to push out shoots.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To drive in a given direction.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To force or drive into an action or situation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # Of what follows in a sequence, to drive on.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[abstrūdō]]
+ * [[contrūdō]]
+ * [[dētrūdō]]
+ * [[extrūdō]]
+ * [[introtrudo]]
+ * [[obtrūdō]]
+ * [[prōtrūdō]]
+ * [[retrūdō]]
+ * [[trudis]]
+ * [[trūsō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}