dehisco Latin · revision 32639

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *ǵʰh₁i-eh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deˈ(ɦ)iːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dehīscō''' (present infinitive dehīscere, perfect active dehīvī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|hīscō|t2=to open the mouth, gape]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The OLD and the TLL take [[m|la|hīscō]] as the inchoative of [[m|la|hiō|t=to gape]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan traces that verb to [[itc-pro|*χi-ā-]] and [[ine-pro|*ǵʰh₁i-eh₂-|t=to gape, be wide open]], perhaps an old i-present, and compares [[lt|žióti|t=to open (one's mouth)]] and [[goh|ginēn|t=to be wide open]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short and the TLL first cite Varro, who has the perfect infinitive ⟨dehisse⟩ of the earth opening.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) In his Menippean satires doors freed from their bolts spring apart.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to split open, develop a gap, gape, above all of the earth: Virgil uses it of the yawning ground.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Livy has a battle line gaping with gaps.^(OLD 2012) Celsus uses it of bones that stand apart in the middle, and Pliny the Elder of a jaw gaping to the ears.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that apart from Varro it is not found before Augustus.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Priscian names it as a word whose long vowel is shortened, and glosses have contracted forms such as ⟨descit⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of the earth opening and of doors springing apart.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of the yawning earth.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a gaping battle line.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a gaping jaw.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To split open, [[m|en|gape]], [[m|en|yawn]], develop a gap.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To stand apart, leave a gap.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of a gap, to remain open.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hio|alt=hiō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}