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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dēperdō''' (present infinitive dēperdere, perfect active dēperdidī, supine dēperditum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dē-|perdō|t2=to destroy, lose]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|perdō]] is made from [[m|la|per-]] and [[m|la|dō|t=to give, put]],^(Wiktionary) which de Vaan traces to [[ine-pro|*deh₃-|t=to give]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL reads it from Cicero and Lucretius on.^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to lose or be deprived of something.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) In law it is to lose permanently: the jurist Gaius defines as lost what has ceased to exist.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the passive it means to be utterly lost or ruined: Propertius compares a lover's state to Io's undoing, and Phaedrus has a cobbler ruined by poverty.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Suetonius uses the participle of being desperately in love.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Manuscripts sometimes confuse it with [[disperdō]].^(TLL) Stelten gives "destroy, ruin, lose" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, its first use according to the TLL.^(TLL)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius.^(TLL)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius of Io's undoing.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 140–180 AD – Gaius of what has ceased to exist.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|lose]], be deprived of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' To lose permanently.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(passive)'' To be utterly lost or [[m|en|ruined]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995) ''(participle)'' desperately in love.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēperditiō]]

+ * [[dēperditum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[perdō]]

+ * [[disperdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}