praesentio Latin · revision 33238

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [prae̯ˈsɛn.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [preˈs̬ɛn.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''praesentiō''' (present infinitive praesentīre, perfect active praesēnsī, supine praesēnsum); fourth conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prae-|sentiō|t2=to feel, perceive]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|sentiō]] to [[itc-pro|*s(e)nt-ije/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*snt-ie/o-|t=to notice]], cognate with [[lt|sintė́ti|t=to think]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Lucretius, Caesar and Virgil on.^(TLL) Plautus' ''Trinummus'' has “he would have done it, if the dogs had not sensed it beforehand”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ With the senses it is to perceive beforehand: Terence has neither having sensed that the speaker was there, Lucretius a goose smelling a man from afar, and Apuleius smelling a familiar savour.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the mind it is to have a presentiment: Cicero says that the mind would have no presentiment of the future, and that we sense beforehand, by a fixed notion of the mind, that god is such;^(OLD 2012) he uses it seventeen times in ''De divinatione''.^(TLL) Caesar has foreseeing and anticipating with the mind, Virgil the queen sensing deceit, Ovid a nurse sensing evil, Pliny the Elder an earthquake foretold, and Suetonius the outcome of wars.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has an impersonal passive, “it was perceived”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Church Latin has “feel beforehand, have a presentiment”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of dogs sensing a man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, with accusative and infinitive.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of a presentiment of the future.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar, of foreseeing with the mind.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of sensing deceit.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To perceive beforehand with the senses.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To have a [[m|en|presentiment]] of, [[m|en|foresee]], [[m|en|presage]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[praesēnsiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sentiō]]

+ * [[praesāgiō]]

+ * [[praevideō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes ''dīvīnāre'', foreseeing by divine inspiration, ''praesāgīre'', by a natural gift of mind bordering on the supernatural, and ''praesentīre'' and ''praevidēre'', by an unusual measure of natural talent.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}