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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=59 BC–17 AD, Livy|origins=ine-pro *(H)ieh₁-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * Classical: [ɪn.tɛrˈja.ke.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * Ecclesiastical: [in.terˈjaː.t͡ʃe.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''interiaceō''' (present infinitive interiacēre, perfect active interiacuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)
+ It is also spelled ''interjaceō''.^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|inter-|iaceō|t2=to lie]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains [[m|la|iaceō]] as the stative partner of [[m|la|iaciō|t=to throw]], “to be thrown down”, hence “to lie”,^(de Vaan 2008) and traces it to [[itc-pro|*jak-ē-|t=to lie down]], from the root [[ine-pro|*(H)ieh₁-|t=to throw, let go]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Lewis & Short note that it is not in Cicero or Caesar;^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has a space of empty plain lying between, ''spatio quod vacui interiacebat campi''.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It means to lie or extend between, intransitively or with a dative or an accusative:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has the plain between Capua and Tifata and the plain lying between the Tiber and the walls of Rome,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the letters of Pliny and Trajan a road lying between.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to be between in time, as in Seneca's “all the time that lies between is heavy”,^(OLD 2012) and in a series, as when Quintilian says that many things lie between these extremes.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy, of plains lying between.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of intervening time.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian, of things in between.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To [[m|en|lie]] or extend between.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)
+ # To be between, [[m|en|intervene]], in time or in a series.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[iaceō]]
+ * [[interiaciō]]
+ * [[iaciō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}