vanesco Latin · revision 32961

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81/79–52/50 BC, Catullus|origins=la vānus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vānēscō''' (present infinitive vānēscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vānus|-ēscō|t1=empty]], an inchoative.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan reconstructs [[itc-pro|*wāno-]] or ⟨*wā̆sno-⟩ for [[m|la|vānus]] and compares [[sa|ऊन|tr=ūná-|t=empty]].^(de Vaan 2008) Wiktionary compares the parallel development of [[gem-pro|*wanōną]], the source of [[en|wane]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotation is in Catullus, who asks that grief not be allowed to come to nothing.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to become insubstantial, melt into nothing, vanish, mostly in poetry and post-Augustan prose: Ovid has heavy clouds beginning to vanish, grain turning into barren grass, and a spirit vanishing into thin air, and Tacitus everything turning to ash.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of immaterial things it is to pass into oblivion, as in Ovid's your fault vanishes when balanced by another.^(OLD 2012) Of actions it is to come to nothing or become of no account.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus of grief coming to nothing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of clouds and a spirit vanishing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of everything turning to ash.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|vanish]], disappear, melt away into nothing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of immaterial things, to pass away, be forgotten.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To come to nothing, become ineffectual.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vanus|alt=vānus]]

+ * [[evanesco|alt=ēvānēscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}