detero Latin · revision 32787

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *terh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdeː.tɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdɛː.te.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēterō''' (present infinitive dēterere, perfect active dētrīvī, supine dētrītum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|terō|t2=to rub]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|terō]] to [[itc-pro|*tera-]] and [[ine-pro|*terh₁-|t=to rub]], comparing [[grc|τείρω|tr=teírō|t=to oppress, distress, weaken]], [[grc|τρίβω|tr=tríbō|t=to rub, wear out]], [[lt|tìrti|t=to investigate]] and [[goh|drāen|t=to turn]].^(de Vaan 2008) Porphyrio explained it as “to lessen”, because what is rubbed is diminished.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL date it from Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to wear down or away: Lucretius has paved roads worn by the feet of the crowd, Ovid shells worn smooth by the sea, Phaedrus a dog's neck chafed by the chain.^(OLD 2012) Cato uses it of rubbing off a husk, Columella of pounding herbs with oil and wine and of threshing grain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to lessen or impair: Horace fears he would diminish Caesar's praises through the fault of his talent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short note that it is mostly poetic and post-Augustan, absent from Cicero and Caesar.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of rubbing off a husk.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of worn paving stones.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of diminishing praise.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of grinding and threshing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To wear down or away; to wear smooth; to [[m|en|chafe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To rub off, remove.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To pound, [[m|en|grind]]; to [[m|en|thresh]] (grain).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To lessen, impair; to detract from.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dētrīmentum]]

+ * [[dētrītus]]

+ * [[indetritus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tero|alt=terō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}