attono Latin · revision 33240

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Maecenas, quoted by Seneca}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈat.tɔ.noː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈat.to.no]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''attonō''' (present infinitive attonāre, perfect active attonuī, supine attonitum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

+ Also spelled ''adtonō''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ad-|tonō|t2=to thunder]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The TLL thinks the verb was made from the participle [[m|la|attonitus|t=thunderstruck]], which is far more common.^(TLL) Lewis & Short compare [[grc|ἐμβρόντητος|tr=embróntētos|t=thunderstruck]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first finite use is in Maecenas, quoted by Seneca: “height itself draws the thunder to its summits”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The TLL finds the finite verb once in Maecenas and twice in Ovid, and otherwise only the participle.^(TLL) Ovid asks what madness has stunned his hearers' minds, and speaks of women stunned by the power of the dryads.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short call it a poetic word of the Augustan age.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Servius says that ''attonitus'' properly means a person stunned by a nearby lightning strike and the noise of thunder.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca quotes Maecenas, of summits struck by lightning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of stunned minds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 400 AD – Servius explains ''attonitus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To strike with [[m|en|lightning]], blast.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|stun]], stupefy, drive out of one's mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[attonitus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tonō]]

+ * [[tonitrus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}