extermino Latin · revision 32989

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɛkˈstɛr.mɪ.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ekˈstɛr.mi.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''exterminō''' (present infinitive extermināre, perfect active extermināvī, supine exterminātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|terminō|t2=to set bounds]], to send beyond the boundary.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Etymonline derives it from the phrase ⟨ex termine⟩ “beyond the boundary”, from [[m|la|termen|t=boundary]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotations in the OLD and Lewis & Short are in Cicero, who says a man had Gaius Marcellus driven from a city.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to expel or banish, and to dismiss an idea from the mind: Cicero says he does not think the questions of the natural philosophers should be banished.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short find it rare except in Cicero and in Church Latin.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the Old Latin psalms it renders a misread Greek verb, so that Tertullian has hands and feet ⟨exterminātī⟩ where the Vulgate has “pierced”.^(TLL) In Late Latin it came to mean to destroy.^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary) English [[m|en|exterminate]] dates from the 1540s, first meaning to drive away.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of driving a man out and of dismissing questions.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1540s – English ''exterminate'', to drive away.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To drive beyond the borders, [[m|en|expel]], [[m|en|banish]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To dismiss (an idea from the mind).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' To abolish, destroy.^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[exterminātiō]]

+ * [[exterminātor]]

+ * [[exterminus]]

+ * [[exterminabilis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[terminus]]

+ * [[en|exterminate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}