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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la stīlla}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈstiːl.loː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈstil.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''stīllō''' (present infinitive stīllāre, perfect active stīllāvī, supine stīllātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a verb [[af|la|stīlla|-ō|t1=drop]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary takes [[m|la|stīlla]] for a probable diminutive of [[m|la|stīria|t=frozen drop, icicle]], and compares [[grc|στίλη|tr=stílē|t=tiny particle, drop]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Varro describes a vessel from which water drips slowly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short call it mostly poetic.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius has clouds that send down rain and drip, and rocks that sweat and drip with trickling drops.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid and Tibullus use it of honey and ointment dripping, and Cicero of a dagger dripping with blood.^(Lewis & Short 1879) As a transitive verb it is to let fall in drops: Horace has a listener who will drip tears from friendly eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively Calpurnius has words that ooze out drop by drop, and Seneca uses it of speech that trickles out.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to drip.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of dripping water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of dripping clouds and rocks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a dripping dagger.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of dripping tears.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # Of a liquid, to fall in drops, [[m|en|drip]], [[m|en|trickle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To drip with a liquid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To let fall in drops, [[m|en|distil]]; figuratively, to instil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēstīllō]]

+ * [[exstīllō]]

+ * [[īnstīllō]]

+ * [[perstīllō]]

+ * [[stīllātīcius]]

+ * [[stīllātim]]

+ * [[stillātiō]]

+ * [[substillus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stilla|alt=stīlla]]

+ * [[stillicidium|alt=stīllicidium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}