amplexor Latin · revision 32620

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pleḱ-t-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [amˈpɫɛk.sɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [amˈplɛk.sor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''amplexor''' (present infinitive amplexārī or amplexārier, perfect active amplexātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ An active form ''amplexō'' is found in Plautus, Accius, Lucilius and Petronius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a frequentative, [[af|la|amplector|-tō|t1=to embrace]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan explains [[m|la|amplector]] as [[m|la|plectō|t=to plait]] with the prefix ⟨amb-⟩, and traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*plekt-]] and [[ine-pro|*pleḱ-t-e/o-|t=to plait, twine]], comparing [[grc|πλέκω|tr=plékō|t=to braid, twine]] and [[goh|flehtan|t=to plait]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) In the OLD's earliest quotation a character promises to recline beside someone, love them and embrace them.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to hold lovingly in one's arms, embrace, and of a suppliant to clasp someone's feet.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it rarer than [[amplector]], mostly early, in Cicero and in Church writers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to accept gladly: Seneca bids someone take a kindness, embrace it and rejoice.^(OLD 2012) It is also to refuse to give up: Seneca writes of a mother who clings to her grief.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it of attaching oneself to a cause, of those who wish to embrace pleasure, and of attending to knowledge of the mind.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of embracing someone.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of embracing pleasure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of welcoming a kindness and of clinging to grief.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|embrace]], clasp; of a suppliant, to clasp someone's feet.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To accept gladly, [[m|en|welcome]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To cling to, refuse to give up.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To be devoted to, [[m|en|cherish]]; to concentrate on.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[amplector]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}