depereo Latin · revision 32425

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁ei-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deːˈpɛ.re.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [deˈpɛː.re.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēpereō''' (present infinitive dēperīre, perfect active dēperiī or dēperīvī, supine dēperitum); irregular conjugation, third person-only in the passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|pereō|t2=to perish]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) [[m|la|pereō]] is a compound of [[m|la|eō|t=to go]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*ei-|t=to go]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁ei-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008) Paulus' epitome of Festus explains it as "to perish utterly".^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the transitive sense: a woman is told how desperately he loves her.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its basic sense is to perish or die, as in Varro.^(OLD 2012) Livy uses it hyperbolically, of a man dying of love for a girl, and Plautus already has the transitive use, to love someone to distraction.^(OLD 2012) Of things it is to be destroyed or lost: Lucretius says that nothing of matter is ever lost, Caesar that ships were lost in a storm, and Cicero asks that no sheet of a manuscript be lost.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) The Vulgate and Gregory of Tours have the future deperiet.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it perish, be lost.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

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

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of matter that is never lost.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of ships lost in a storm.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of dying of love.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|perish]], die; hyperbolically, to die of love.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of things, to be destroyed, be lost, go to waste.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be desperately [[m|en|in love]] with, love to distraction.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[deperītiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pereo|alt=pereō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}