exsero Latin · revision 32463

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=ine-pro *ser-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exserō''' (present infinitive exserere, perfect active exseruī, supine exsertum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is very often spelled ''exerō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|serō|t1=out|t2=to join, string together]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|serō]] to [[itc-pro|*sere/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*ser-e/o-|t=to thread, tie together]], comparing [[grc|εἴρω|tr=eírō|t=to knit together]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest example is in Caesar's ''Gallic War'', of baring part of the body.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to thrust out or stretch forth: Livy has a Gaul thrusting out his tongue in mockery, and Pliny the Elder a tongue put out through the mouth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) With caput it is to raise one's head, to become eminent.^(OLD 2012) Reflexively it is to free oneself, as in Ovid of an unborn child seeking a way out of its mother.^(OLD 2012) It is also to lay bare part of the body, to draw a sword, as Ovid's goddess of war with drawn swords, and in the passive participle to be stripped for fighting.^(OLD 2012) Seneca uses it of revealing the secrets of the mind, and a declamation of exercising one's freedom.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it mostly post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to exert, put forth, reveal, show.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of baring part of the body.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a Gaul thrusting out his tongue.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of drawn swords.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To thrust out, stretch forth; reflexively, to free oneself.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To lay bare, [[m|en|uncover]]; to draw a sword.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To reveal, disclose, show.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To exercise, [[m|en|exert]].^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exsertō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sero|alt=serō]]

+ * [[assero|alt=asserō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}