anhelitus Latin · revision 32819

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂enh₁-slo-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''anhēlitus''' ''m'' (genitive anhēlitūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|anhēlō|-tus|t1=to pant]], formed like [[spiritus|alt=spīritus]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan takes [[m|la|anhēlō]] as a verb from [[m|la|anhēlus|t=panting]], which he traces to [[itc-pro|*anaslo-|t=breath]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂enh₁-slo-|t=a breathing]], comparing [[sa|अनिति|tr=ániti|t=breathes]]; its ⟨h⟩ may be imitative or taken from [[m|la|hālō|t=to breathe]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus.^(Köbler 2010) In the OLD's earliest quotation Plautus says that mist is made of breath and panting.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is shortness of breath, panting, from exertion, as in Plautus' ⟨anhēlitum dūcere⟩, to pant, and as a symptom of disease, as in Ovid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also panting from emotion: a declamation has someone made to spend life in gasps and fears.^(OLD 2012) It is simply breath: in Plautus someone is told to get his breath back.^(OLD 2012) It is breath that reeks: Cicero speaks of breath smelling of wine.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also uses it of exhalations from the earth that inspired minds to give oracles.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note it as the classical word beside post-Augustan ⟨anhēlātiō⟩.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Niermeyer records the medieval sense fervent desire.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of panting and of getting one's breath back.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of reeking breath and of the earth's exhalations.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of panting in disease.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Shortness of breath, [[m|en|panting]], gasping.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|breath|alt=Breath]]; reeking breath.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An exhalation, especially of the earth; vapour.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Fervent desire.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[anhelo|alt=anhēlō]]

+ * [[anhelus|alt=anhēlus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}