fatisco Latin · revision 33249

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=itc-pro *fati-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [faˈtiːs.koː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [faˈtis.ko]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fatīscō''' (present infinitive fatīscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

+ Early writers use the deponent ''fatīscor'': Pacuvius, Accius and Lucretius.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ It has no perfect or supine.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|itc-pro|*fati-|t=exhaustion]], a noun preserved in [[m|la|affatim|t=amply]] and also the base of [[m|la|fatīgō|t=to tire out]] and [[m|la|fessus|t=tired]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan thinks that the deponent [[m|la|fatīscor]] was probably formed after the compound [[m|la|dēfetīscor|t=to become worn out]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Pacuvius,^(de Vaan 2008) who has the deponent with an infinitive, ''numquam fatiscar'', “I shall never tire”.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense is to split open, crack or gape: Virgil warns against a threshing floor cracking from dust, and has ships letting in water through their opening seams.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lucretius has images worn out and falling apart.^(Lewis & Short 1879) From this it came to mean to grow weary, as in Pliny the Elder,^(OLD 2012) and to become exhausted, flag or fail: Columella says a ewe fails after its seventh year, and Tacitus has an army weakened by want and toil, and a mutiny dying down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Church Latin has it as to crack open, fall apart, decrease.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius, in the deponent form.^(Georges 1913)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius, of things falling apart.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of cracking ground and leaking ships.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of a ewe that has ceased to breed.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of an exhausted army.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To split open, [[m|en|crack]], [[m|en|gape]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To grow [[m|en|weary]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To become exhausted, [[m|en|flag]], fail; to die down.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[affatim]]

+ * [[dēfetīscor]]

+ * [[fatīgō]]

+ * [[fessus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}