voro Latin · revision 33295

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *gʷo/erh₃-o/h₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈwɔ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈvɔː.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vorō''' (present infinitive vorāre, perfect active vorāvī, supine vorātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is probably a denominative verb from a noun or adjective ⟨*gʷorā-⟩, “food” or “devouring”.^(de Vaan 2008) It is [[inh|itc-pro|*gʷo/erā-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*gʷo/erh₃-o/h₂-|t=devouring, devoured]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sa|गिरति|tr=giráti|t=devours, swallows]], [[grc|βιβρώσκω|tr=bibrṓskō|t=to eat]] and [[grc|βορά|tr=borá|t=fodder]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) in whom someone is advised to swallow Egyptian resin in honey, ''resinam ex melle Aegyptiam vorato''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to swallow ravenously, to devour;^(OLD 2012) Cicero distinguishes animals that swallow whole from those that chew, ''alia vorant, alia mandunt''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is to deal with something voraciously, as when Cicero writes to Atticus that he is devouring literature.^(OLD 2012) Of natural forces and cavities it is to engulf, as when a whirlpool in Virgil swallows a ship in the sea,^(OLD 2012) and of disease to eat away, as in Celsus' ulcer that eats the body to the bone.^(OLD 2012) Wiktionary also records a vulgar sense, to fellate.^(Wiktionary) In Church Latin it is to eat greedily, to devour.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of swallowing a remedy.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of animals that swallow and of devouring books.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a whirlpool engulfing a ship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, of an ulcer.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|swallow]] ravenously, to [[m|en|devour]], eat greedily.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To deal with voraciously, as to read eagerly.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of natural forces: to [[m|en|engulf]], swallow up;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) of disease, to eat away.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(vulgar)'' To [[m|en|fellate]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēvorō]]

+ * [[trānsvorō]]

+ * [[vorāgō]]

+ * [[vorātor]]

+ * [[vorātrīna]]

+ * [[vorātus]]

+ * [[vorāx]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vorācitās]]

+ * [[vorāciter]]

+ * [[vorāginōsus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}