astruo Latin · revision 32834

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 50 BC, Caesar|origins=ine-pro *streu-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈas.tru.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈas.tru.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''astruō''' (present infinitive astruere, perfect active astrūxī, supine astrūctum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''adstruō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|struō|t2=to pile up, build]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|struō]] to [[itc-pro|*strow-e/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*streu-e/o-|t=to strew]], comparing [[sga|sruïd|t=throws]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the OLD's earliest quotation Caesar has soldiers building a further storey of bricks on top of a structure.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to build on to an existing building: Columella has a new building added to an old one.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to heap on: Maecenas wishes himself a hump piled on.^(OLD 2012) Of praise and honour, Tacitus asks what more fortune could have added for a man with consular and triumphal honours.^(OLD 2012) It is to add or contribute: the elder Seneca sets out what the old orators found and those after them added.^(OLD 2012) Velleius speaks of adding Livy to the earlier age.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it mostly prose and post-Augustan, and never in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin also glosses it to establish, support, teach.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of building an extra storey.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 20 BC–30 AD – Velleius of counting Livy with the earlier age.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of honours fortune could add.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To build on to, build in addition.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To heap on; to add honour or praise.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To add, [[m|en|contribute]]; to join to; to count among.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To provide with additional features.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To establish, support, teach.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[astructio]]

+ * [[astructor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[struo|alt=struō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}