intumesco Latin · revision 32623

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=65–8 BC, Horace|origins=ine-pro *tum-eh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪn.tʊˈmeːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [in.tuˈmɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intumēscō''' (present infinitive intumēscere, perfect active intumuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|tumēscō|t2=to begin to swell]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL derives it from [[m|la|in-]] and [[m|la|tumeō|t=to swell]],^(TLL) which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*tum-ē-]] and [[ine-pro|*tum-eh₁-|t=to be swelling]], comparing [[wlm|tyfu|t=to grow]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the OLD's earliest quotation Horace has a land where the ground does not swell up with vipers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to swell up or rise, and Lewis & Short call it poetic and post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Ovid uses it of a belly swollen with dropsy, and the elder Seneca of a sea made rough by sudden storms.^(OLD 2012) Columella has a site where the ground rises a little.^(OLD 2012) Of sound it is to grow fuller: Tacitus has a voice that swells with the echo.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it is to swell with pride, as the crowd of sisters in Ovid, and of emotions to increase: Persius has bile swelling in a hot breast.^(OLD 2012) Some manuscripts of Pliny the Elder, Jerome and the Vulgate spell it with ⟨-isc-⟩.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to swell up.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of ground swelling with vipers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of a dropsical belly and of swelling pride.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 34–62 AD – Persius of swelling bile.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of a voice swelling with the echo.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|swell]] up, become swollen, rise; of the sea, to grow rough.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of ground, to rise.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of sound, to grow fuller.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To be puffed up with pride or anger; of emotions, to increase.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tumeo|alt=tumeō]]

+ * [[tumesco|alt=tumēscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}