exaestuo Latin · revision 32673

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *h₂eidʰ-tu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈsae̯s.tu.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eɡˈzɛs.tu.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exaestuō''' (present infinitive exaestuāre, perfect active exaestuāvī, supine exaestuātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|aestuō|t2=to boil, surge]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) [[m|la|aestuō]] comes from [[m|la|aestus|t=heat, surge]], which de Vaan traces with [[m|la|aestās|t=summer]] to [[ine-pro|*h₂eidʰ-tu-|t=burning, heat]], doubting that their ⟨-st-⟩ is the regular outcome.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the OLD's earliest quotations Virgil has the deepest wave seething in eddies, and a mind boiling with anger.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to boil, foam or surge up, of liquids: Livy has the sea surging.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of fire it is to blaze up: Seneca has a fire kindled in some deep valley seething.^(OLD 2012) Of people and feelings it is to seethe or rage, as anger in Virgil.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is not frequent until after the Augustan age, and not in Cicero or Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Arnobius uses the present participle almost as an adjective.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to heat, boil, burn.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a seething wave and of anger.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of the surging sea.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of a raging fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|boil]] up, foam, [[m|en|surge]], seethe.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Of fire, to blaze up, rage.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of people and feelings, to [[m|en|seethe]], rage.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exaestuatio]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aestuo|alt=aestuō]]

+ * [[aestus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}