discumbo Latin · revision 32302

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la -cumbō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [dɪsˈkʊm.boː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [disˈkum.bo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''discumbō''' (present infinitive discumbere, perfect active discubuī, supine discubitum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dis-|-cumbō|t2=to lie down]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs the nasal present behind [[m|la|-cumbō]] and [[m|la|cubō|t=to lie]] as [[itc-pro|*kumbe/o-|t=to lie down]], comparing Faliscan [[m|xfa|cupat|t=lies]] and Paelignian [[m|pgn|incubat]]; since the root is limited to Italic and Celtic, he leaves its Indo-European origin uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Mercator'', of going to bed at night.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Plautus it is to lie down to sleep; from Varro on it is mostly to take one's place at table for a meal, as in Cicero's “we all lay down to dinner except her”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that this use is especially common from the Augustan period on, beside [[accumbo|alt=accumbō]].^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to sit down or recline at table.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of going to bed.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of taking one's place at a meal.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of reclining at a feast.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To lie down to sleep, go to [[m|en|bed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To take one's place at table; to [[m|en|recline]] at a meal.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[discubitio]]

+ * [[discubitus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ An ancient list of word distinctions says that [[accumbo|alt=accumbere]] is to lie down to rest, discumbere to lie down to a meal, and [[decumbo|alt=dēcumbere]] to lie down in sickness.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}