emico Latin · revision 32291

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *mikH-(e)ie-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈeː.mɪ.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.mi.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēmicō''' (present infinitive ēmicāre, perfect active ēmicuī or ēmicāvī, supine ēmicātum); first conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

+ The perfect is ''ēmicuī'';^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Quintilian condemns ''ēmicāvī'' as misplaced pedantry.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|micō|t1=out|t2=to dart, flash]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|micō]] to [[itc-pro|*mikaje-]] and [[ine-pro|*mikH-(e)ie-|t=to blink]]: the basic Latin meaning is to dart or move quickly to and fro, which Slavic words share beside “blink” and “see”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it in the ''Aulularia'' of a heart that begins to jump in the breast.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to dart or spring forth, as Virgil has a band of young men leaping onto the Italian shore, and of missiles to shoot out and of liquids to spurt.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella uses it of shoots springing from a vine, and Lucretius of the heat of flame flashing out.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to stand out, as Horace speaks of a fine word that flashes out from a poem.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is rare before the Augustan period and absent from Cicero and Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to shine forth.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a jumping heart.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of flashing flame and spurting liquid.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of men leaping ashore.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian discusses its perfect.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To dart forth, [[m|en|spring]] out; of missiles, to shoot out; of liquids, to [[m|en|spurt]]; of the heart, to jump.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of plants, to shoot forth.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of fire, to flash forth; figuratively, to stand out, be conspicuous.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[emicatim]]

+ * [[ēmicātiō]]

+ * [[superemico]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}