conticesco Latin · revision 32346

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *tHk-eh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔn.tɪˈkeːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kon.tiˈt͡ʃɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''conticēscō''' (present infinitive conticēscere, perfect active conticuī); third conjugation, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus has the spelling ''conticīscō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|taceō|t=to be silent]] with the inchoative suffix ⟨-scō⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|taceō]] to [[itc-pro|*tak-ē-|t=to be silent]] and [[ine-pro|*tHk-eh₁-|t=to be silent]], comparing [[xum|taçez|t=silent]], [[non|þegja|t=to be silent]] and [[goh|thagēn|t=to be silent]].^(de Vaan 2008) He doubts the link with [[grc|πτήσσω|tr=ptḗssō|t=to duck]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Bacchides'': “but I will fall silent, for I hear the door opening”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to stop speaking or making a sound, and of sounds and speech themselves to cease, as in Cicero's promise that grateful talk will never fall silent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Valerius Flaccus once uses it with an object, to keep silent about.^(OLD 2012) It also means to come to rest or stop working, as in Cicero's ''Brutus'', of writings that have long been silent.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Priscian notes that some writers, Plautus among them, used conticīscō.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of falling silent.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of praise that will never fall silent and of letters that have stopped.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 6th century AD – Priscian comments on the form conticīscō.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To fall [[m|en|silent]], stop speaking; of sounds, to cease.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be silent about something.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To come to rest, become idle, stop working.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[conticinium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}