prolabor Latin · revision 32738

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=170–c. 90 BC, Accius|origins=la lābor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [proːˈɫaː.bɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [proˈlaː.bor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōlābor''' (present infinitive prōlābī, perfect active prōlāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prō-|lābor|t2=to glide, slip]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan lists [[m|la|lābor]] and its compounds under [[labo|alt=labō]] “to totter”, but doubts that the two stems belong together;^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary suggests [[ine-pro|*(s)leh₂b-|t=to hang loosely, be weak]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short quote Accius, cited by Cicero, of the sea: a mass that has slid forward rushes down.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero's ''Aratea'' has one of the Fishes gliding a little ahead.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is to slide or slip forward;^(OLD 2012) Apuleius has blood that has flowed from a head, and Cicero uses it of running on too long in a speech and of a passion that has gone to an extreme.^(OLD 2012) Things slide out of place: Lucretius has the earth sinking back into its seat.^(OLD 2012) It is to slip from a place, as a statue's crown that fell into its hand by itself in Livy,^(OLD 2012) and to lapse into a condition, as a victor's mind into pity.^(OLD 2012) It is to overbalance, as a rider with his horse in Propertius, and of buildings to give way, as a temple of Jupiter in Nepos.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also has it of falling into error from fear and of the young who have so declined that they must be restrained.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that in Cicero it is most often figurative.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to fall away, lapse, fail.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of a mass sliding forward.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a constellation, of a long speech and of decline.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of the earth sinking back.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 100–24 BC – Nepos of a collapsing temple.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a falling crown and a mind lapsing into pity.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|glide]], slide or slip forward; of liquids, to flow forth; to run on in a speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To slide out of position; to slip from a place, drop.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|lapse]] into a practice or state; to fall into error.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To fall over; of buildings, to give way, [[m|en|collapse]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To fall into decay, decline, degenerate.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[prōlāpsiō]]

+ * [[prolapsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[labor#1|alt=lābor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}