percrebresco Latin · revision 32910

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''percrēbrēscō''' (present infinitive percrēbrēscere, perfect active percrēbruī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''percrēbēscō'', perfect ''percrēbuī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|per-|crēbrēscō|t2=to become frequent]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The TLL notes that [[m|la|crēbrēscō]] is found only from Virgil on, so the compound may rather have been formed by changing the prefix of [[increbresco|alt=incrēbrēscō]], which is used from Plautus on.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short's first quotations are Cicero's, of a matter spreading and of an opinion that has spread among foreign nations.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of ideas and practices it is to become very widespread, to be widely diffused or very common.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of news and beliefs it is to become widely reported or believed: Cicero says a thing spread and began to be on everyone's lips, Tacitus that the illness of Germanicus became known, and Pliny the Younger that it had long been believed that Rome could not be fed without the wealth of Egypt.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it to become prevalent, be spread abroad, become well known.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a matter and an opinion spreading.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of the news of an illness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To become very widespread or common, to [[m|en|prevail]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To be widely reported or believed, to [[m|en|spread]] abroad.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[increbresco|alt=incrēbrēscō]]

+ * [[creber|alt=crēber]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}