exhalo Latin · revision 32987

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=ine-pro *h₂enh₁-slo-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈsaː.ɫoː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [eɡˈzaː.lo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exhālō''' (present infinitive exhālāre, perfect active exhālāvī, supine exhālātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ It is often written ''exālō'', without the ''h''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|hālō|t2=to breathe]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan follows Schrijver in taking [[m|la|hālō]] as an early denominative of [[itc-pro|*anaslo-|t=breath]], from [[ine-pro|*h₂enh₁-slo-|t=a breathing]], with the ⟨h-⟩ added as a sound-painting element or by hypercorrection.^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[sa|अनिति|tr=ániti|t=breathes]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Pacuvius,^(de Vaan 2008) whose tragedy has the earth breathing out a vapour.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to breathe out or give off fumes and vapours: Lucretius has lakes exhaling mist, Virgil and Ovid mist and smoke, Pliny the Elder darkness and deadly vapours.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Varro uses it of hoar frost made to evaporate before the sheep are driven to pasture.^(OLD 2012) Of persons it is to breathe or belch out, and with ''vītam'' or ''animam'' to breathe out one's life, to die, as in Virgil's king breathing out his life.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) English borrowed ''exhale'' about 1400, from Old French and directly from Latin, first of liquids, perfumes and the breath of life.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius of the earth breathing out vapour.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of frost evaporating.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of lakes exhaling mist.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of breathing out one's life.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1400 – English ''exhale'' borrowed from Old French and Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|exhale]], give off (fumes, vapours); of persons, to breathe or [[m|en|belch]] out.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To cause to [[m|en|evaporate]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''vītam'' or ''animam exhālāre'': to breathe one's last, [[m|en|expire]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exhālātiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[halo|alt=hālō]]

+ * [[halitus|alt=hālitus]]

+ * [[en|exhale]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}