emorior Latin · revision 32424

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [eːˈmɔ.ri.ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eˈmɔː.ri.or]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēmorior''' (present infinitive ēmorī or ēmorīrī, perfect active ēmortuus sum); third (-iō variant) / fourth conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Plautus and Terence have the infinitive ''ēmorīrī''.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) Manuscripts of Celsus have a perfect participle ''ēmortus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|morior|t2=to die]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|morior]] to [[itc-pro|*morje-|t=to die]] and [[ine-pro|*mr-ie/o-|t=to die]], comparing [[sa|म्रियते|tr=mriyáte|t=to die]], [[lt|mir̃ti|t=to die]] and [[sga|marb|t=dead]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, who says that one man is alive and the other dead.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to perish or die, a frequent and classical word.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella uses it of barley that dies in muddy soil, Celsus of a limb that slowly dies, and Mela of the Euphrates petering out into a thin stream.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is of feelings or activities that die away: Plautus asks what use it is to be kind in words if one's help is dead.^(OLD 2012) Commenting on Terence's ēmorīrī, Donatus says that comic poets give foolish speakers faulty forms as well as foolish ideas.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a dead man and of help that dies.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence has the infinitive ēmorīrī.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of barley dying.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of a dying limb.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|perish]], [[m|en|die]]; of plants and tissue, to die off; of a river or fire, to die down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of a feeling or activity, to come to an end, die away, die out.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēmortuālis]]

+ * [[inēmorior]]

+ * [[superēmorior]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[morior]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}