delitesco Latin · revision 32748

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *lh₂-to-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deː.lɪˈteːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēlitēscō''' (present infinitive dēlitēscere, perfect active dēlituī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ Manuscripts have both ''-ēscō'' and ''-īscō'', and also ''dil-''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|latēscō|t2=to hide]], the inchoative of [[m|la|lateō|t=to lie hidden]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it under [[m|la|lateō]], a stative verb from [[ine-pro|*lh₂-to-|t=hidden]], and compares [[grc|λανθάνω|tr=lanthánō|t=to be hidden]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL) in whose ''Rudens'' a bad woman has gone into hiding.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ After Plautus the TLL finds it from Varro and Cicero on.^(TLL) It is to hide oneself, lie hidden or lurk: Cicero has beasts hiding in their lairs, Caesar the enemy hidden at night in the woods, Ovid Salmacis hidden in a thicket.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Lewis & Short call it classical.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary adds to withdraw and to take refuge.^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it to lie hidden.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a woman in hiding.^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of beasts in their lairs.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of an enemy hidden in the woods.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of Salmacis in a thicket.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|hide]] oneself, go into hiding; to lie hidden, [[m|en|lurk]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)^(TLL)

+ # To withdraw, take [[m|en|refuge]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[latēscō]]

+ * [[lateo|alt=lateō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}