perfruor Latin · revision 32475

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *bʰruHg-ie/o-}}

+

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɛr.fru.ɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpɛr.fru.or]^(Wiktionary)

+

+ ==Forms==

+ '''perfruor''' (present infinitive perfruī, perfect active perfructus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ The participle ''perfrūctus'' is found in Cicero;^(TLL) ''perfruitus'' also occurs.^(TLL)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|fruor|t1=thoroughly|t2=to enjoy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|fruor]] to [[itc-pro|*frūg-je/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰruHg-ie/o-|t=to use]], comparing [[ang|brūcan|t=to use]].^(de Vaan 2008)

+

+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short's earliest examples are in Cicero, who writes in the ''In Pisonem'': “on these things I feed, in these I delight, these I enjoy to the full”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to have full enjoyment of something, with the ablative: Cicero has enjoying the praise of wisdom, a modest life and leisure, and Velleius the memory of the city.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Cicero once uses it in the passive.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has it in the sense of fulfilling a father's commands.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to enjoy thoroughly.^(Stelten 1995)

+

+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of enjoying leisure and praise.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of carrying out a father's orders.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 20 BC–30 AD – Velleius of enjoying the memory of Rome.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+

+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|enjoy]] fully or thoroughly, have full enjoyment of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(poetic)'' To fulfil, carry out.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+

+ ==Word family==

+ * [[perfructio]]

+ * [[perfruitio]]

+

+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fruor]]

+ * [[fructus|alt=frūctus]]

+

+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}