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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [abˈɫa.kʷe.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [abˈlaː.kʷe.o]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''ablaqueō''' (present infinitive ablaqueāre, perfect active ablaqueāvī, supine ablaqueātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Varro has the archaic form ''ablacuō''.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012)
+ Georges also gives ''oblaqueō''.^(Georges 1913)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ Its formation is disputed.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The OLD and Wiktionary analyse it as [[af|la|ab-|laqueō|t2=to ensnare]], and Lewis & Short take it from [[m|la|laqueus]] in the sense “hollow”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL and Georges derive it from [[m|la|ab]] and [[m|la|lacus|t=trench, basin]], and the TLL thinks it perhaps a reshaping of Varro's older ⟨ablacuō⟩.^(TLL)^(Georges 1913) De Vaan finds no etymology for [[m|la|laqueus]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Cato has it in ''On Agriculture'', of loosening the soil round olive trees.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ 
+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ The TLL notes that only the writers on farming use it.^(TLL) It is to loosen and weed the soil at the roots of trees, or to turn up the earth round a tree to make a trench for water,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) which Georges explains as done to destroy weeds and help growth, or to cut away surface roots.^(Georges 1913) Columella and Pliny the Elder use it of the roots of vines and trees.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)
+ 
+ ==Timeline==
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of olive trees.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro has ''ablacuō''.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of roots.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder, of trees.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To loosen and weed the soil round the roots of (trees or vines); to make a [[m|en|trench]] round a tree for water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[ablaqueātiō]]
+ 
+ ==Related words==
+ * [[laqueus]]
+ * [[lacus]]
+ * [[en|ablaqueate]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}