expilo Latin · revision 32888

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la pīlō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈspiː.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ekˈspiː.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''expīlō''' (present infinitive expīlāre, perfect active expīlāvī, supine expīlātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|pīlō|t2=to rob]], beside [[compilo|alt=compīlō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotation is in Plautus' ''Asinaria'': to drink with a girlfriend by day and to rob her.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to rob, plunder or despoil a person or a place: Cicero writes of a king robbed and plundered, of plundering a temple of Apollo, and of draining the treasury.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has plundered treasures, and Tacitus allies stripped of their goods.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it classical and give [[compilo|alt=compīlō]], [[spolio|alt=spoliō]], [[diripio|alt=dīripiō]] and [[populor]] as synonyms.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of robbing a girlfriend.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a plundered king and temple.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of plundered treasures.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of despoiled allies.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|rob]], [[m|en|plunder]], [[m|en|pillage]], despoil (a person or place).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[expīlātiō]]

+ * [[expīlātor]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[compilo|alt=compīlō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD and the TLL also record a separate ''expilō'' with a short ''i'', made with ''pilō'' “to remove hair”, meaning to depilate or pluck;^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Lucilius has it in a list of a courtesan's toilet.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}