adhaeresco Latin · revision 33184

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *χais-ē-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''adhaerēscō''' (present infinitive adhaerēscere, perfect active adhaesī, supine adhaesum); third conjugation, no passive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|adhaereō|-scō|t1=to stick to]], an inchoative verb,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) or [[m|la|ad-]] with [[m|la|haerēscō]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|haereō|t=to stick]] to [[itc-pro|*χais-ē-]], and finds no credible cognates.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first, in the ''Poenulus'', of birdlime that should not stick to slings.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Literally it is to stick fast or become lodged, as Caesar's spear that by chance stuck in a tower.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL notes that it takes the dative less often than ''adhaereō'', while a range of prepositions goes with it from Cato on.^(TLL) Lewis & Short say the figurative use belongs almost entirely to Cicero: things that stick in the mind, devotion to justice and honour, and shipwreck, as men run aground on the Sirens' rocks from a desire to learn, or a speaker who gets stuck in the flow of words.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Curtius uses it of hangers-on who attach themselves to a great fortune.^(OLD 2012) The TLL adds that its inchoative force weakens in later Latin.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of birdlime sticking.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of a spear lodged in a tower.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of devotion to justice and of shipwreck on the Sirens' rocks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius, of hangers-on.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To stick, [[m|en|adhere]], become attached; of weapons and fire, to lodge, take hold.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To stick in the memory.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To attach oneself to a person as a hanger-on; to [[m|en|cleave]] to a moral quality.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To become fixed in a place.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To run aground; to come to a standstill, get stuck.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[adhaereō]]

+ * [[haereō]]

+ * [[haerēscō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}