exopto Latin · revision 32476

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁op-eie-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈsɔp.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eɡˈzɔp.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exoptō''' (present infinitive exoptāre, perfect active exoptāvī, supine exoptātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Valerius Maximus has the spelling ''exobtō''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|optō|t2=to choose, wish]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|optō]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*opeje-|t=to choose, grab]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁op-eie-|t=to choose, grab]], comparing [[xum|upetu|t=let him select]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) who asks in the ''Bacchides'' whether a woman longed for another man instead.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to wish or long for something greatly, with an accusative, an infinitive or ut: Cicero says that people most long for what most of them think finest, and Livy that the arrival of the Samnites was longed for.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It can be to wish something on someone, as when Cicero tells Piso that everyone hates him and wishes him a plague.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The participle exoptātus means longed-for or welcome, often in Plautus and Terence.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to wish eagerly, to hope for.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of longing and of a welcome return.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of wishing someone a plague.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a longed-for arrival.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|long]] for, desire greatly, hanker after.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To wish something on someone.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exoptābilis]]

+ * [[perexoptātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[opto|alt=optō]]

+ * [[exoptatus|alt=exoptātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}