roro Latin · revision 32968

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=96–55 BC, Lucretius|origins=ine-pro *h₁rōs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rōrō''' (present infinitive rōrāre, perfect active rōrāvī, supine rōrātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rōs|-ō|t1=dew]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) De Vaan traces [[m|la|rōs]] to [[itc-pro|*rōs]] and [[ine-pro|*h₁rōs|t=dew, juice]], comparing [[sa|रस|tr=rása-|t=juice, liquid]] and [[lt|rasà|t=dew]], and probably the verb seen in [[hit|ārš-|t=to flow]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotations are in Lucretius, of faces wet with tears, and in Varro, who says it drizzles before it rains.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Without an object it is to shed moisture as drizzle or dew, and impersonally it drizzles: Ovid has Aurora shedding dew over the whole world, and Propertius Mevania misty in its hollow plain.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also to drip or run with moisture, as Propertius' horses, and of liquid to fall in drops, as Lucretius' tears.^(OLD 2012) With an object it is to sprinkle or shower down liquids, as Quintus Cicero's Aquarius pouring out mists, and to moisten or wet: Ovid has the earth soft with the morning frost.^(OLD 2012) The Vulgate's ''rōrāte, caelī'' asks the heavens to drop down dew.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to bedew.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of tears wetting the face.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of drizzle before rain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of Aurora shedding dew.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate's ''rōrāte, caelī''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To shed [[m|en|dew]] or moisture;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''(impersonal)'' to [[m|en|drizzle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To drip or run with moisture; of liquid, to fall in drops, [[m|en|trickle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(transitive)'' To sprinkle, shower down; to moisten, wet.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[circumrōrō]]

+ * [[irrōrō]]

+ * [[rōrātiō]]

+ * [[rōridus]]

+ * [[adrōrō]]

+ * [[arrōrō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ros|alt=rōs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}