exsulo Latin · revision 32752

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la exsul}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɛks.sʊ.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛks.su.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exsulō''' (present infinitive exsulāre, perfect active exsulāvī, supine exsulātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''exulō'', and archaic ''exsolō'' and ''exolō'' occur.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Inscriptions write ''exul-'', without ''s''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|exsul|-ō|t1=exile]].^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan finds several origins possible for [[m|la|exsul]]: a verb ⟨*ex-sulere⟩ “to take out” from the root [[ine-pro|*selh₁-|t=to take]] of [[consul|alt=cōnsul]], a link with [[ambulo|alt=ambulō]] “who walks out”, or the root of [[grc|ἐλαύνω|tr=elaúnō|t=to drive]].^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD notes that the ancients connected it with [[solum]] “ground”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whose ''Trinummus'' some have gone off into exile.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to be an exile or live in exile: Cicero discusses a man who had the right to live in exile at Rome, and Livy has a man going off to the Volsci into exile.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it classical and note figurative uses.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Wiktionary also gives a transitive sense, to banish.^(Wiktionary) Church Latin glosses it to live in exile, to banish or be banished.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of going into exile.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the right to live in exile.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of going into exile among the Volsci.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be an [[m|en|exile]], live in exile.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|banish]], expel.^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exsulātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[exsul]]

+ * [[exsilium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}