praestringo Latin · revision 32630

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯sˈtrɪŋ.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [presˈtriŋ.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praestringō''' (present infinitive praestringere, perfect active praestrīnxī, supine praestrictum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prae-|stringō|t2=to bind, tighten]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan thinks [[m|la|stringō]] merges the verbs [[ine-pro|*stri-n-g-|t=to brush, strip]] and [[ine-pro|*strengʰ-e/o-|t=to draw, tie]], and puts this compound with the sense to tie, from the second.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) In the OLD's earliest quotations Plautus has a splendour that dazzles the eyes and men whose tongues blunt the edge of swords at home.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its basic sense is to tie up at the ends or tightly: Cato warns not to tie a vine too tight, and Pliny the Elder uses it of something that thickens and so constricts and strangles.^(OLD 2012) It is also to graze or touch lightly, as a machine in Vitruvius, and with ⟨aciem⟩ to blunt an edge: Pliny has the edge of iron dulled.^(OLD 2012) With ⟨aciem oculōrum⟩ or ⟨oculōs⟩ it is to dazzle, from Plautus and Lucilius to Livy's lightning.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero uses it of the mind: a gesture that might dull the edge of a man's wit.^(OLD 2012) Quintilian has praise eclipsed by the brilliance of virtues.^(OLD 2012) The TLL finds it once or twice each in Plautus, Caecilius, Cato, Lucilius, the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', Varro and Ovid, and more often in Cicero, Seneca and Pliny.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to bind up.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of dazzling the eyes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of tying a vine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of dulling the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of dazzling lightning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of eclipsed praise.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To tie up tightly or at the ends; to [[m|en|constrict]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|graze]], touch lightly; to touch on briefly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To blunt an edge; to [[m|en|dazzle]] the eyes; to dull the mind; to eclipse.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[praestīgia]]

+ * [[praestrictiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stringo|alt=stringō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}