patesco Latin · revision 32891

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *pt-n(é)-h₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [paˈtɛs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [paˈtɛs.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''patēscō''' (present infinitive patēscere, perfect active patuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''patīscō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pateō|-scō|t1=to be open]], the inchoative of the verb.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan explains [[m|la|pateō]] as an Italic stative built on ⟨*pat-⟩, the full grade that arose beside the nasal present of [[pando|alt=pandō]] “to spread”, which goes back to [[ine-pro|*pt-n(é)-h₂-|t=to spread]]; he compares [[grc|πίτνημι|tr=pítnēmi|t=to spread out, open]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it of seed pods that open.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to open, of a door or space, a plant or the eyes: Tibullus has a door that does not open, overcome by words, and Virgil long halls laid open.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of a road or region it is to become open or accessible, and to lie exposed: in Ovid the land lies open to plunder.^(OLD 2012) It is to come into view or become known: in Virgil the goddess is revealed by her walk.^(OLD 2012) Of territory it is to spread out, as Livy's plain that widens a little, and of troops to deploy.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively Cicero writes of a way back to favour opening up, and of generosity extending more widely in a province.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it mostly in poetry and post-Augustan prose, and not in Cicero.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to lie open or extended.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of opening seed pods.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a way opening and of generosity extending.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of halls laid open and a goddess revealed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of a widening plain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|open]], be opened; of plants or the eyes, to open.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of a road or region, to become open or accessible; to lie exposed.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To come into view; to become clear or known, be [[m|en|revealed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To spread out, [[m|en|extend]]; of troops, to deploy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repatescō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pateo|alt=pateō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}