peruro Latin · revision 32533

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *h₁eus-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''perūrō''' (present infinitive perūrere, perfect active perussī, supine perustum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|ūrō|t2=to burn]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|ūrō]] to [[itc-pro|*ouse/o-|t=to burn]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁eus-e/o-|t=to burn]].^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[sa|ओषति|tr=oṣati|t=to burn, scorch]] and [[grc|εὕω|tr=heúō|t=to singe]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Varro, Cicero, Catullus and Lucretius on.^(TLL) Varro uses it of stars that signal something on earth by scorching it, like a brand on cattle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lucretius has fire that licks and burns up many things.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy writes of fields burnt far and wide, Propertius of hair scorched by the African sun.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it of the fire of love, Curtius of thirst that tormented the wounded, Columella of seeds that parch the soil.^(OLD 2012) Horace has a side galled by ropes, and Seneca uses it of an insult about poverty that stung some people.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that it is frequent in Seneca, Columella and Lucan, mostly in the perfect participle.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to parch, burn up.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of stars that scorch.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of fire burning things up.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of burnt fields.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the fire of love.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of a stinging insult.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|burn]] up, consume with fire; to burn through.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To inflame with passion.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of the sun, thirst or fever, to [[m|en|scorch]], parch; of cold or a caustic, to burn; to dry up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To make sore, [[m|en|chafe]]; figuratively, to gall, irritate.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[uro|alt=ūrō]]

+ * [[aduro|alt=adūrō]]

+ * [[comburo|alt=combūrō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}