direptio Latin · revision 32486

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *h₁r̥p-i-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīreptiō''' ''f'' (genitive dīreptiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dīripiō|-tiō|t1=to tear apart, plunder]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists [[m|la|dīripiō]] among the compounds of [[m|la|rapiō|t=to seize]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*rap-i-|t=to seize]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁r̥p-i-|t=to seize]], comparing [[grc|ἐρέπτομαι|tr=eréptomai|t=to devour, snatch away]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and the OLD find it first in Cicero, who lists famine, fires, slaughter and pillage among the dangers that threatened.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the plundering of a city or of property, a word Lewis & Short call rare but good prose: Cicero speaks of a city left to plunder and fire, and Caesar, Suetonius and Quintilian use it too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy uses it of a scramble for a share.^(OLD 2012) Ammianus has it of the stealing of the Golden Fleece.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the Old Latin Bible and the Vulgate it renders Greek words for plundering.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of pillage and of a city given over to plunder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus of the theft of the Golden Fleece.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|plunder|alt=Plundering]], [[m|en|pillage]], sack.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A struggle for a share, scramble.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|theft|alt=Theft]], carrying off.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[diripio|alt=dīripiō]]

+ * [[rapio|alt=rapiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}