praeripio Latin · revision 32293

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁rp-i-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯ˈrɪ.pi.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [preˈriː.pi.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praeripiō''' (present infinitive praeripere, perfect active praeripuī, supine praereptum); third (-iō variant) conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prae-|rapiō|t1=before|t2=to seize]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|rapiō]] to [[itc-pro|*rap-i-|t=to seize]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rp-i-|t=to seize]], comparing [[grc|ἐρέπτομαι|tr=eréptomai|t=to devour, snatch away]], [[sq|rjep|t=to tear off, rob]] and [[lt|ap-rė́pti|t=to take, catch]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Casina'': “have you come here to snatch my bride from me?”^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to snatch something before another can, often with an abstract object, as Caesar has a man arrogantly forestalling a favour of the people.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Statius uses it of a foster child snatched away by death before his time.^(OLD 2012) It is also to do something before another, to anticipate, as Cicero fears to seem to anticipate the gods' favour by haste, and Vitruvius has a voice caught in mid course.^(OLD 2012) The TLL finds it from Plautus, Terence and Cicero on, but not in Catullus, Sallust, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Lucan or Petronius; manuscripts often confuse it with [[praerumpo|alt=praerumpō]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of anticipating the gods' favour.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius of a child taken by early death.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|snatch]] before another, seize first; of death, to snatch away too soon.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|forestall]], anticipate; to do first.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To catch in mid course, [[m|en|intercept]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[praereptor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}