saturo Latin · revision 32838

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *s(e)h₂-tu-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈsa.tʊ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈsaː.tu.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''saturō''' (present infinitive saturāre, perfect active saturāvī, supine saturātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|satur|-ō|t1=full, sated]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|satur]] to [[itc-pro|*saturo-|t=well-fed]], built on [[ine-pro|*s(e)h₂-tu-|t=satiation]], the root of [[m|la|satis|t=enough]]; he compares [[lt|sótus|t=satisfied, full]] and [[sga|sáith|t=fullness]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the OLD's earliest quotation Plautus has someone tell a sister that these things make life wearisome.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to fill with food or drink, sate: Varro has sheep fed full on fallen ears, and Cicero animals sated at the udder.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to satisfy a person or his passions: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' has someone told to sate his anger with another's blood.^(OLD 2012) It is also to drench: Virgil tells the farmer not to be ashamed to soak dry soil with rich dung.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it rare but classical, with [[satio|alt=satiō]] as a synonym.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to fill, satisfy.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|saturate]] comes from its past participle, from the 1530s, first meaning to satisfy.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of being weary of life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of sheep fed full.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of soaking soil with dung.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English [[m|en|saturate|alt=saturate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To fill with food, [[m|en|sate]], satisfy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To satisfy a person or a passion; to weary, cloy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|drench]], saturate.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exsaturō]]

+ * [[insaturatus]]

+ * [[insaturus]]

+ * [[obsaturō]]

+ * [[saturamen]]

+ * [[saturatim]]

+ * [[saturātiō]]

+ * [[saturator]]

+ * [[saturābilis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[satur]]

+ * [[satis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}