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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *h₂eus-ie/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈhau̯s.tʊs], [ˈhau̯s.tuːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈau̯s.tus], [ˈau̯s.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''haustus''' ''m'' (genitive haustūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|hauriō|-tus|t1=to draw, drain]], an action noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|hauriō]] to [[itc-pro|*aus-je-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂eus-ie/o-|t=to scoop]], comparing [[non|ausa|t=to scoop]] and [[grc|αὔω|tr=aúō|t=to get a light]], whose sense he takes as narrowed from scooping to fire; the initial ⟨h⟩ may be hypercorrect.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Lucretius,^(de Vaan 2008) in whom dogs at play imitate tender bites with their teeth held back.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates it from Cicero, who names the right of drawing water beside the right of an aqueduct and a right of way.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the drawing of water and the quantity drawn, and in law the right to draw it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Columella speaks of water that is not drawn from a depth, and Juvenal of a well easily drawn.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid uses it of drawing blood and of scooping up sand.^(OLD 2012) It is the act of drinking, as of milk in Pliny the Elder, and a draught, as Ovid's draughts of wine.^(OLD 2012) It is also the gulping of food, the drawing in of air, and absorption: Virgil says the bees have a share of the divine mind and draughts of the upper air, and Pliny the Elder has the moon absorbing light.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it drink, draught, drawing of water.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of dogs' play-bites.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the right of drawing water.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of draughts of air.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of draughts of wine and of blood.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The drawing of water; a quantity drawn;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''(law)'' the right of drawing water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The drawing of blood; the scooping out of sand or earth.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The act of [[m|en|drinking]]; a drink, [[m|en|draught]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The gulping of food; the drawing in of air; [[m|en|absorption]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[haurio|alt=hauriō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}