albeo Latin · revision 32617

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=120–67 BC, Sisenna|origins=ine-pro *h₂elbʰ-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈaɫ.be.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈal.be.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''albeō''' (present infinitive albēre); second conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|albus|-eō|t1=white]], a stative verb.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|albus]] to [[itc-pro|*alfo-|t=white]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂elbʰ-o-|t=white]];^(de Vaan 2008) Paul the Deacon's Festus reports that the Sabines said ⟨alpus⟩.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Sisenna, who writes of the sky growing light.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to be white or appear white: in Virgil the plains are white with bones.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Priscian notes that Virgil used this simple form beside the inchoative [[albesco|alt=albēscō]].^(TLL) Seneca uses it of people who are pale and wan.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it rare and poetic, frequent in Ovid and found in post-Augustan prose, especially in the present participle ⟨albēns⟩: white roses, white foam, a head white with grey hair.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to become white.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 120–67 BC – Sisenna of the sky growing light.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of plains white with bones.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of white roses and foam.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of pale people.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be [[m|en|white]], appear white.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To be [[m|en|pale]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of the sky, to be or grow light.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[albēscō]]

+ * [[albidus]]

+ * [[inalbeō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[albus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}