inuro Latin · revision 32356

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *h₁eus-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪˈnuː.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iˈnuː.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inūrō''' (present infinitive inūrere, perfect active inussī, supine inustum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|ūrō|t1=in, on|t2=to burn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|ūrō]] to [[itc-pro|*ouse/o-|t=to burn]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁eus-e/o-|t=to burn]], comparing [[sa|ओषति|tr=oṣati|t=burns, scorches]] and [[grc|εὕω|tr=heúō|t=to singe]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest examples are in Lucretius, of marks left by heat, and in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to burn or scorch, as the sun that thins the body in Celsus, and in medicine to cauterize;^(OLD 2012) Quintilian uses it of curling hair with hot tongs.^(OLD 2012) It is to make a mark by burning, and Pliny the Elder uses it of encaustic painting, as the painter Nicias wrote that he had burnt in a picture.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Above all it is to brand or stamp indelibly, figuratively: Cicero asks Catiline what mark of domestic disgrace has not been branded on his life, and speaks of the censors' mark of shame.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of marks made by heat.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the brand of disgrace.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of scorching and cauterizing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of encaustic painting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|burn]], scorch; to [[m|en|cauterize]]; to curl hair with hot tongs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To imprint by burning; to paint in [[m|en|encaustic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|brand]], impress indelibly; to brand with a mark.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}