exheredo Latin · revision 32986

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *ǵʰeh₁ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛk.seːˈreː.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eɡ.zeˈrɛː.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exhērēdō''' (present infinitive exhērēdāre, perfect active exhērēdāvī, supine exhērēdātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''exhērē-'', ''exhaerē-'' and ''exērē-'' in manuscripts.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed on [[exheres|alt=exhērēs]] “disinherited” with the verb suffix ⟨-ō⟩, as the OLD puts it;^(OLD 2012) the TLL derives it from [[m|la|ex-]] and [[m|la|hērēs|t=heir]].^(TLL) De Vaan takes [[m|la|hērēs]] back to [[itc-pro|*χērēd-]], a noun made with a suffix ⟨-ēd-⟩ from [[ine-pro|*ǵʰeh₁ro-|t=derelict]], and links it with [[grc|χῆρος|tr=khêros|t=orphaned, empty]] and [[m|grc|χήρα|tr=khḗra|t=widow]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis & Short's quotations begin with Cicero, who in the ''Philippics'' writes that someone disinheriting his brother was making the addressee his heir.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to disinherit, in Cicero, the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' and Quintilian.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it figuratively, of depriving an heir of a thing by breaking it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in the ''Philippics'' and the ''Pro Cluentio''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of depriving an heir of a thing.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|disinherit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To deprive an [[m|en|heir]] of something.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exhērēdātiō]]

+ * [[exheredator]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[heres|alt=hērēs]]

+ * [[hereditas|alt=hērēditās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}