ebibo Latin · revision 33229

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pi-ph₃-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈeː.bɪ.boː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈɛː.bi.bo]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ēbibō''' (present infinitive ēbibere, perfect active ēbibī, supine ēbibitum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''exbibō'',^(OLD 2012) and in manuscripts ''ecb-'' or ''etb-''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ex-|bibō|t2=to drink]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|bibō]] to [[itc-pro|*pibe/o-]] and the reduplicated present [[ine-pro|*pi-ph₃-e/o-|t=to drink]], and dates the compound from Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first,^(de Vaan 2008) as in the ''Amphitruo'', of drinking up a jug of neat wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to drink up or drain: Plautus has it beside eating, and Terence asks what they will eat and drink.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid has children draining the breasts, and in the ''Fasti'' a man who drinks as many cups as Nestor had years.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus also has drinking away a command with the wine, that is forgetting it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is to spend on drink, in Plautus and Horace.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of things it is to absorb or dry up: Ovid has the sea absorbing foreign rivers, and Pliny the Elder wool soaking up pus and serpents sucking the blood of elephants.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The Vulgate uses it of drinking up the spirit, in Job.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin also uses it of drinking in with the mind.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of drinking up wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, of eating and drinking.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of the sea absorbing rivers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, of drinking up the spirit.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To drink up, [[m|en|drain]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To spend on drink, [[m|en|squander]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of things, to [[m|en|absorb]], swallow up; to dry up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To drink in mentally.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[bibō]]

+ * [[bibulus]]

+ * [[combibō]]

+ * [[perbibō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}