renascor Latin · revision 32531

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *ǵn̥h₁-sk-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [rɛˈnaːs.kɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [reˈnas.kor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''renāscor''' (present infinitive renāscī, perfect active renātus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription from Pompeii has ''regnatus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|re-|nāscor|t2=to be born]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|nāscor]] to [[itc-pro|*gnāsk-e/o-|t=to be born]] and [[ine-pro|*ǵn̥h₁-sk-e/o-|t=to be born]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato uses it of plants: what you pick by hand will grow again, what you cut with a sickle will not.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Varro has it of teeth that grow again, and of the rebirth of people that the Greeks call palingenesis.^(OLD 2012) Cicero argues that a first principle, once extinguished, would not be reborn, and writes that people wonder at the renewed war.^(OLD 2012) Ovid uses it of a river that disappears and comes up again from another mouth, and Martial of temples rebuilt.^(OLD 2012) Lucretius has things reborn from nothing.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the Vulgate it is spiritual rebirth: unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of plants growing again.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of rebirth and of teeth.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a renewed war.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate of being born again in spirit.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be [[m|en|reborn]], born again; of things, to be created anew; of buildings, to be rebuilt.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To grow again, of plants and parts of the body.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To come back into existence; of practices and conditions, to be [[m|en|revived]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To be born again spiritually, be [[m|en|regenerated]].^(Stelten 1995)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nascor|alt=nāscor]]

+ * [[renatus|alt=renātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}