defatigo Latin · revision 32779

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [deː.faˈtiː.ɡoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [de.faˈtiː.ɡo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēfatīgō''' (present infinitive dēfatīgāre, perfect active dēfatīgāvī, supine dēfatīgātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''dēfetīgō'', the usual form in manuscripts.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|fatīgō|t2=to tire]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan bases [[m|la|fatīgō]] and its family on a noun [[itc-pro|*fati-|t=exhaustion]], preserved in [[affatim]];^(de Vaan 2008) Dunkel explains the verb as a compound of that noun with the root of [[ago|alt=agō]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD's first quotations are in Terence: in the ''Phormio'' a young woman may wear a man out, and in the ''Andria'' a man says he has been deceived but not worn down.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to tire out or exhaust in body or mind: Caesar writes of fresh troops relieving tired ones and wearing out his men.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Columella uses it of soil exhausted by the yield of the previous year, Seneca of breaking the force of a blow.^(OLD 2012) In the passive it is to lose heart, and with a gerundive to grow weary of doing something: Cicero urges his hearer not to tire of saving good men.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to exhaust, wear out, tire.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of being worn out.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of tired troops.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, to weary of saving good men.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of exhausted soil.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|exhaust]], tire out, wear out;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) to exhaust the fertility of land; to break the force of.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(passive)'' To lose heart, be discouraged; to grow [[m|en|weary]] of.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēfatīgātiō]]

+ * [[indēfatīgātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fatigo|alt=fatīgō]]

+ * [[defetiscor|alt=dēfetīscor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}