consenesco Latin · revision 32676

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kõː.sɛˈneːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cōnsenēscō''' (present infinitive cōnsenēscere, perfect active cōnsenuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|senēscō|t2=to grow old]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan derives [[m|la|senēscō]] from [[m|la|senex|t=old man]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*seno-|t=old]] and [[ine-pro|*sen-|t=old]], comparing [[sga|sen|t=old]], [[sa|सन|tr=sána-|t=old]] and [[lt|sẽnas|t=old]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL records it from Plautus on:^(TLL) in the ''Captivi'' a father says he wastes away, grows old and pines.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to reach old age and to grow old together: Ovid has Baucis and Philemon growing old in their hut.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also to spend one's whole life in an occupation or state: Horace has Marsians and Apulians who have grown old in arms under a Median king, and Livy the hope of growing old in a safe exile.^(OLD 2012) From the start it also means to grow feeble or waste away, and of things to decay with age.^(OLD 2012) Last it is to lose force or fall into disuse: Varro has a civic virtue that begins to sicken and weaken.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of wasting away.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of a virtue losing force.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of soldiers grown old in arms.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of Baucis and Philemon.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To grow old, reach old age; to grow old together.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To spend one's life, grow old (in an occupation or condition).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To grow feeble, [[m|en|waste away]]; of things, to [[m|en|decay]] with age.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To lose force, fall into disuse; of people, to become of no account.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[senesco|alt=senēscō]]

+ * [[senex]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}