hebeto Latin · revision 33063

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la hebes}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈhɛ.bɛ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.be.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''hebetō''' (present infinitive hebetāre, perfect active hebetāvī, supine hebetātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|hebes|-ō|t1=blunt, dull]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan finds that neither [[m|la|hebeō|t=to be blunt]] nor the adjective can be derived from the other, and sets up a common stem for both.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Virgil has it of the cloud that dulls the sight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short think it perhaps not used before Augustus, and note that Cicero does not use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to make blunt: Livy has spears broken or blunted, and weapons blunted on wounds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to dim light, as in Ovid where the kindly day dims the stars, and to deaden the force of something, as Ovid's flames of the bulls.^(OLD 2012) It is used of dulling the senses, as Virgil's cloud over the eyes and Pliny the Elder's sharpness of sight,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) of making the body torpid, as limbs numbed in Valerius Maximus, and of soil made sluggish as if by poison in Columella.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "blunt, make dull".^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|hebetate]] comes from its participle.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of dulling the sight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of blunted spears.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the stars dimmed by day.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella of sluggish soil.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1570s – English [[m|en|hebetate]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make [[m|en|blunt]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To [[m|en|dim]] (light); to deaden the force of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To dull (the senses or mind).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To make (the body or plants) torpid.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[hebetātiō]]

+ * [[hebetātrīx]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[hebēscō]]

+ * [[hebetēscō]]

+ * [[hebes]]

+ * [[hebeō]]

+ * [[en|hebetate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}